By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 16 August 2007 Chinese investors chat at a private security company, 16 Aug 2007 in Shanghai, China There was no let-up Thursday in the wave of selling on Asian stock markets. As VOA's Heda Bayron reports from Hong Kong, inve...
By Michael Bowman Washington 15 August 2007 A new poll of likely U.S. voters shows New York Senator Hillary Clinton maintaining her frontrunner status among Democratic voters in next year's presidential race, with former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 15 August 2007 Police in Ethiopia say they have prevented a rebel group called the Oromo Liberation Front from carrying out a plan to bomb public buildings and assassinate officials in the Ethiopian city of Nazareth. VOA Corresp...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 15 August 2007 Nigeria has won praise from the international community for free-market reforms that have spurred high levels of growth, slashed inflation and earned the country significant debt relief. And as Gilbert da Cost...
By Arjun Kohli Nairobi 15 August 2007 In Kenya, a split has occurred in the main opposition party that will nominate a candidate to oppose President Mwai Kibaki in December's presidential elections. As Arjun Kohli reports from our East Africa Bureau...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 15 August 2007 The government of south Sudan says dialogue with the Sudanese government in Khartoum has completely broken down and a peace deal signed in 2005 is in jeopardy. As Nick Wadhams reports from Nairobi, tension conti...
By Jeffrey Young Washington 15 August 2007 Fifteen months before the November 2008 presidential election, Iowans belonging to the Republican Party (GOP)have held an informal preference poll on the GOP White House contenders. VOA's Jeffrey Young looks...
By Brian Wagner Miami, Florida 15 August 2007 U.S. minority population are expanding New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that black, Asian, Hispanic and other minority populations are expanding in many districts where whites were once dominant...
By Melinda Smith Washington 15 August 2007 The Western diet, consisting of high fatfoods, is not beneficialfor cancer patients Worldwide statistics show that colon cancer kills more than 600,000 people every year. Now, a new study confirms that diet...
By Rory Byrne Phnom Penh 15 August 2007 Evidence of killings from 1975-1979 Thirty years after the brutal Khmer Rouge governed Cambodia, efforts to punish those considered most responsible for the deaths of nearly two million people have entered a ne...
By Sonja Pace London 15 August 2007 A British parliamentary committee has said that tightening restrictions for highly skilled immigrant workers is illegal and unfair and could mean thousands might be deported. Some 50,000 immigrants could be affecte...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 15 August 2007 The U.S. command in eastern Afghanistan is confirming that U.S. and Afghan forces are conducting an offensive against insurgents in the rugged Tora Bora region. VOA's Al Pessin reports from the Pentagon. A spokesw...
By Phuong Tran 15 August 2007 Partial results from Sierra Leone's National Electoral Commission show opposition candidate Ernest Koroma leading the presidential race. About 20 percent of the ballots from Saturday's election have been officially relea...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 15 August 2007 Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won re-election as leader of the right-wing Likud party. But as Robert Berger reports from VOA's bureau, some analysts describe it as a limited victory bec...
By Trish Anderton Jakarta 15 August 2007 Investors are beginning to show renewed interest in Indonesia, whose economy has finally been shaking off the effects of the 1997 Asian economic crisis. But one legal expert says the country's judicial system...
