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China's coastal cities attracted international traders, missionaries and adventurers for 200 years before the communist party took power in 1949. Most Westerners left soon after that, but many retain fond memories of their years in China. They are ca
Officials in Somalia's transitional federal government are expressing deep concern about the future of the government after its chief military backer and political ally, Ethiopia, announced its intention to withdraw its forces from Somalia by the en
Technology Report - How the Edsel Became 'an Edsel' This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. ANNOUNCER: Theyll know youve arrived, when you drive up in the nineteen fifty-eight Edsel -- the car thats truly new, from nameplate to taillight.
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: We're back with Ben Zimmer from the American Dialect Society. RS: We talked last week about the society's choice for 2009's Word of the Year -- the Twitter-inspired Tweet -- and W
It was in the national news every day. It was on the radio. It was on TV. It was in the newspapers. It was the recall. Toyota was recalling thousands of cars. The cars had a brake problem. Sometimes the brakes didn't work properly. Some Toyota driver
Grammar Girl here. The grammar authorities are going to battle it out today. For they all have a different opinion about our topics: the merits of using the word for to mean because, and whether its OK to start a sentence with the word for. Now, gues
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 10 July 2007 Sudan's government has missed a deadline to withdraw all its troops from southern Sudan as called for by a landmark peace deal. As Nick Wadhams reports from our East Africa bureau in Nairobi, the news could be a b
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By Challiss McDonough Cairo, Egypt 26 March 2008 Egypt says it is sending a junior minister to the Arab League summit scheduled for Damascus this weekend. Lebanon is boycotting the meeting, and Saudi Arabia will also send a low-level delegation. The
Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says Israel will have to give up virtually all of the land it captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War if it wants peace with the Palestinians. Mr. Olmert, now serving as interim prime minister, made his rema
By Jane M Friedman Washington, DC 24 April 2006 watch Surgeon Gender report Historically, women medical students have chosen not to become surgeons, a specialty dominated by men. Women, it was said, w
The U.S. Defense Department says it wants to turn over security responsibility to Iraqi forces as quickly as possible, but that the timing should be based on conditions. A spokesman repeated the position Tuesday in response to a statement by Iraq's
The director of governance at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa says he expects a change in approach following Malawi President Bingu Wa Mutharikas election as chairman of the African Union over the weekend. Peter Clottey | Washington
Banks' dodgy assets; Taking out the trash;The lingering toxicity of banks' balance-sheets; 银行的不良资产;清理垃圾;银行资产负债表的毒性挥散不去; Waste disposal is still a big part of post-crisis banking. A large amount
By Barbara Schoetzau New York 09 August 2006 A delegation from the League of Arab Nations has met with the U.N. Security Council to push for revisions to the U.S.-French draft resolution aimed at a truce in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah
By Steve Herman Kathmandu, Nepal 24 October 2007 More than a year after an interim coalition took control of Nepal's government from the unpopular King Gyanendra, politicians are debating the future of the monarchy, and the country's development. VO
By VOA News 16 April 2008 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States needs to overhaul its approach to national security. Gates told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday there needs to be what he called a fairly dramatic change to better protect th
Indians have joyously greeted the news of the country's first-ever Olympic gold medal in an individual event. The milestone at the Olympic Games in Beijing has resulted in an outpouring of national pride. Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi that
By Al Pessin Washington 10 April 2008 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he no longer holds out the hope that the U.S. troop level in Iraq will be down to 100,000 by the time the Bush administration leaves office in January. But he does hope fo