The Green Alley program is an effort to reduce flooding, save energy and decrease heat in the city. Transcript of radio broadcast: 13 July 2008 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. An environmental project in the American city of Chic...
The telegraph was the first communication device that could move information quickly from one place to another. 10 June 2008 VOICE ONE: Im Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we begin a serie...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 28 December 2007 The chairman of Nigeria's anti-corruption Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nuhu Ribadu, has been ousted in a move criticized by anti-corruption campaigners. Gilbert da Costa in Abuja reports that R...
By Carol Pearson Washington, D.C. 28 June 2007 The World Health Organization has been gathering information on diabetes for more than 20 years. Its findings show that diabetes is second only to asthma as the most common chronic childhood disease. New...
By Cathy Majtenyi Kiambu District, Kenya 11 June 2007 In Kenya's Kiambu District, activists and local government and education officials are working hand-in-hand to rescue boys and girls laboring in the area's coffee, tea, and other plantations. Cat...
By Brian Wagner Caracas 27 May 2007 Supporters of television station Radio Caracas Television, RCTV, protest in Caracas, 26 May 2007 Venezuelan officials are readying to launch a new television station that will replace the nation's oldest private br...
By Nico Colombant Kaduna, Nigeria 20 April 2007 Nigeria's next president is almost certain to be a northerner, as the ruling party candidate and the two main opposition leaders for Saturday's election are from that region. But analysts say replacing...
By Tabinda Naeem Washington, DC 26 January 2007 watch Amber Alert report Dylan and Shasta Groene Every day thousands of children around the world are reported missing. Authorities in the United States have devised a special method to alert the publi...
By Jim Bertel Washington, DC 22 December 2006 watch The Nativity Story report The Nativity Story A new film features some familiar Hollywood plot lines: a scandalous teenage pregnancy and young runaways fleeing the law. What makes this different fro...