World Class Pianists Vie for Van Cliburn Prize FORT WORTH, TEXAS A 26 year old from Ukraine has won one of music's most prestigious competitions. Vadym Kholodenko took home top honors after a series of masterful performances at the Van Cliburn Intern...
Pioneering Soil Researcher Wins Top Environment Prize Biologist Diana Wall went to the ends of the earth - the seemingly lifeless Antarctic desert - to study the life in soil. What soil life does for us, it provides us with many benefits that we don'...
Pioneering Soil Researcher Wins Top Environment Prize Biologist Diana Wall went to the ends of the earth - the seemingly lifeless Antarctic desert - to study the life in soil. What soil life does for us, it provides us with many benefits that we don'...
Pioneering Soil Researcher Wins Top Environment Prize Biologist Diana Wall went to the ends of the earth - the seemingly lifeless Antarctic desert - to study the life in soil. What soil life does for us, it provides us with many benefits that we don'...
Agriculture Report - Irrigation Pioneer Wins World Food Prize 农业报道 - 滴灌技术开创者获得世界粮食奖 From VOA Learning English, this is the Agriculture Report in Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 A r...
Irrigation Pioneer Wins World Food Prize Hillels orchards near his home in Israel are innovation in action. Each tree row is fed by plastic tubes which drip water at the base of the tree. Irrigating drop by drop - called drip irrigation - has transfo...
Mo Yan's winning of Nobel Prize inspires young authors By Xinhua writers Han Xiaojing, Ji Shaoting BEIJING, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Mo Yan's winning of Nobel Literature Prize, widely regarded as a great encouragement for China's literature, is bringing m...
Books of Chinese Nobel laureate to hit Russian market next year MOSCOW, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Books of Chinese Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan would meet Russian readers next September, Alexander Shepetina, vice president of the Russian Union of Writers, sai...
China's Mo Yan Wins Nobel Literature Prize Chinese author Mo Yan has won the Nobel Prize in Literature for work that the prize committee says has qualities of hallucinatory realism. The Royal Swedish Academy in Stockholm on Thursday announced the win...
PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917-2000: First African-American to Win a Pulitzer Prize for Literature SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Im Shirley Griffith. SARA LONG: And Im Sarah Long with the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we tell...