CHICAGO, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- Chicago corn, wheat and soybean futures all fell Monday, as traders worried about sluggish crop export demand and engaged in some profit taking. The most active corn contract for December delivery fell 7.75 cents, or 0.96...
Report: Africa Agricultural Reforms Could Ensure Food Security Experts say Africa needs agricultural market reforms if its going to overcome food shortages and high prices. A new report outlines what it calls high payoff, low-cost solutions. The Alli...
For American soldiers, the move from the military to civilian life is not always easy. Military veterans have a thirty-five percent unemployment rate. This is more than three times the national average. And an estimated one hundred thousand veterans...
Tribal elders meet with U.S. troops in Afghanistan's Chowkay Valley One of the biggest challenges we have has to do with the cultural differences. The Pashtun population is challenging by nature in the way they look at life. Nearly nine years into th...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Spring is the time when farmers in Haiti plant about sixty percent of their crops. But this spring is a struggle with disaster. The January twelfth earthquake flattened much of Haiti's capital and s...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Food. Water. Medicine. Hope. All that and more is urgently needed after a powerful earthquake wrecked much of Haiti's capital on Tuesday. A Spanish rescuer carries 2-year-old Redjeson Hausteen Claude from a...
Major agriculture exporting nations have agreed to revive negotiations for the Doha Development Round at a meeting in Indonesia. The commitment to finalize a framework for the eventual elimination of export subsidies and import tariffs has been prai...
THIS IS AMERICA - Agricultural Fairs By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Monday, October 11, 2004 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA, in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Fa...
THIS IS AMERICA - September 16, 2002: Agricultural Fairs By George Grow 13 Sep 2002, 20:32 UTC VOICE ONE: Every year in summer and early autumn, more than one-hundred-million people visit agricultural...
Broadcast: January 23, 2003 By Nancy Steinbach This is the VOA Special English EDUCATION REPORT. We continue our series of reports about how students from foreign countries can attend a college or uni...