Between 1964 and 1973, in an effort to prevent the movement of supplies, armaments and North Vietnamese fighters across neighboring territories and into Vietnam, the U.S. Air Force dropped over 270 million cluster bombs on Vietnam's western neighbor,...
Lebanon has the highest proportion of cultivable land in the Arab world. Indeed, the region has a long history of agricultural activity. There is evidence that as far back as 8,000 years ago, people living in today's Lebanon cultivated fruit trees, a...
Imprisonment for peaceful political activity, religious belief, or for defending a fellow citizen's rights is a horror and a travesty. 因某人参与性质和平的政治活动、持有某种宗教信仰或者捍卫某位公民的权利而对此人进...
Teen Girls Gather in Malawi to Advance Science, Tech Skills A hundred teenage girls from seven countries are gathered the Malawi University of Science and Technology in the country's Thyolo district for a Women in Science camp. Experts from Intel Cor...
Pakistan's First Female Police Chief Breaking Cultural Taboos Rizwana Hameed made history a month ago when she became the first female head of a male police station in Pakistans Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, or KPK, where conservative cultural and rel...
As North Korea and the United States increase rhetoric on Pyongyangs nuclear weapons program, long-held taboos are being broken in neighboring Japan the only country to have suffered nuclear bombardment, at the end of World War II. Analysts say the d...
Were in the mix with the five most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles chart, for the week ending August 5, 2017. Lo and behold, we get a new song this week to supercharge our lineup. It happens in fifth place, where French Montana and...
This is the Top Five Countdown! Were taking aim at the five most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles chart for the week ending September 9, 2017. Youll be glad you joined us this week because countdown history is made this is one for t...
Scientists have accused the alcohol industry of misleading the public over the link between alcohol and cancer. Researchers looked at the websites of 28 global organizations representing the alcohol industry, and concluded that the vast majority dist...
Illegal poaching for products like rhino horn and ivory has driven many iconic species close to extinction. In South Africa, conservationists say a record 1,020 rhinos have been killed in 2014 alone. The total population for the whole of Africa is es...
Chinese Textile Giant Brings Factory Jobs to Struggling Arkansas Town One of Chinas biggest textile mills is planning its first North American factory in a small town in the southern U.S. state of Arkansas. Forrest City, located near the Mississippi...
Ken Beck characterizes his life as a farmer in the U.S. right now as a gamble. Risky at best, he told VOA. There is no money in this game anymore. Beck says he is entering a fifth year of losing money, due in part to lower corn and soy prices, along...
The decisions in Ferguson, Missouri and in New York City sparked widespread protests and global news coverage. Protests continued for days all around the United States, and inspired support across the world, including at this protest in London. 密苏里...
The U.S. job market appears to be firing on all cylinders - adding about 100 thousand more jobs than expected in November. All told, hiring was strong across all sectors, according to Bankrate.com's Mark Hamrick, who spoke with VOA on Skype. 总体上来...
Alan Gross, an American development worker who was unfairly jailed for alleged crimes against the Cuban government, marks the beginning of his sixth year in prison there this month. 阿兰 格罗斯(Alan Gross)是一名美国的承包商，他受到了...
