A small island in Bangladesh is ready to house 100,000 Rohingya refugees, government officials announced Thursday. No date has been set to begin moving people from crowded refugee camps along the country's border with Myanmar, also known as Burma. Th...
This week, we answer a question from a VOA listener who writes: 本周，我们回复美国之音某位听众提出的一个问题。 Question: 提问： I work with some native speakers of English. I want to practice speaking with them so I improve...
Members of the ethnic Hmong community in Fresno, California are in mourning after gunmen shot 10 men killing four over the weekend. 加州弗雷斯诺市的苗族社区成员正在哀悼，枪手在周末枪击了10人并造成其中4人死亡。 Pol...
Many Americans like the idea of big, open spaces. So it might not be surprising that houses built in the United States are among the largest worldwide. The size of the average American house is more than 100 percent bigger than it was in the 1950s. I...
This week political observers watched the first televised hearings of the impeachment investigation against U.S. President Donald Trump with interest. 本周政治观察人士饶有兴趣地观看了针对美国总统特朗普劾调查举行的首场电...
Student leaders of the newspaper covering Northwestern University have faced two waves of criticism recently. Readers were critical of the newspaper's reporting about protests at the university, just north of Chicago, Illinois. Opponents of former Un...
A new study suggests that many of the deadly school shootings in the United States over the past 10 years could have been prevented. Most students who carried out such an attack had shown threatening or suspicious behavior, but were not reported to l...
Researchers say they have successfully created another embryo of the northern white rhino. The animal risks disappearing forever. Just two remain, and both are female. This new, viable embryo is the third of its kind. To make the embryo, scientists u...
The latest diet trend in America is also an ancient human activity. The activity is fasting, or not eating food for a set amount of time. 美国最新的饮食潮流也是一项古老的人类活动。这个活动是禁食，或者在规定的时间内...
Chronic fatigue syndrome is one of the most troubling mysteries in modern medicine. Many years after first recognizing the disorder, researchers still do not know what causes it. Now the United States' National Institutes of Health is using volunteer...
The killings of a staggering number of social activists in Colombia has caused concern at the United Nations human rights agency. 哥伦比亚数量惊人的社会活动分子被杀，引起了联合国人权机构的关注。 The office of the U.N....
By John Russell 15 January 2020 2019 was a good year for sport utility vehicles, or SUVs. Rising demand for SUVs drove record sales for German carmakers such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz. But some observers worry that their popularity could lead to more...
The Australian government said this week it will spend over 34 million dollars on helping wildlife recover from bushfires. 澳大利亚政府本周表示，将花费3400多万美元帮助野生动物从丛林大火中恢复。 The bushfires crisis th...
In an effort to be more environment friendly, organizers of this summer's Tokyo Olympics have built cardboard beds for the athletes to sleep on. 为了更加环保，今年夏天举行的东京奥运会的组织者建造了纸板床给运动员睡。...
Scientists reported this week that the world's oceans were warmer in 2019 than they had ever been before. 科学家本周报告称，2019年全球海洋温度比以往任何时候都要高。 The report comes at a time when studies have linked rising...
