By Jim Randle Washington, D.C. 04 April 2007 Watch Hedge Fund report Some of the financial world's largest investment funds are getting bigger, more numerous and more likely to hurt the economy if they collapse. Hedge funds, which are investment veh...
By Dan Robinson Washington 02 March 2007 Experts testifying on Capitol Hill say President Bush's upcoming trip to Latin America will be crucial to efforts at improving the U.S. image with governments and people in the region. VOA's Dan Robinson repo...
By Marissa Melton 09 February 2007 Child laborers in Benin Activists, U.S. government representatives and scholars gathered in Washington Thursday to discuss human trafficking, not sex-trafficking, which is the most talked-about aspect of the industr...
By Martin Secrest Washington, D.C. 26 January 2007 watch Bird Flu report New outbreaks of bird flu are causing concern in Asia. Since the beginning of the year, there have been new bird flu cases in Thailand, Vietnam, and China. Indonesian authoriti...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 27 December 2006 Only days away from the end of the United Nations' Year of Deserts and Desertification, four experts discuss the challenges of translating a decade's worth of research about the degradation of land in arid areas...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 17 November 2006 Experts on Somalia have mixed opinions about some of the findings in a new U.N. commission report that accuses 10 countries from across the Middle East and Africa of supplying money, weapons, troops, and traini...
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 14 November 2006 A group of prominent arms control experts has sent letters to U.S. senators urging them not to approve legislation relating to the Bush administration's nuclear deal with India unless significant changes...
By Jim Malone Washington 09 November 2006 A number of experts say that political moderates may have been the big winners in Tuesday's U.S. congressional elections. Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, left, meets with Democratic Senat...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 07 November 2006 Kenyan Environment Minister Kivutha Kibwana opens talks at UN Climate Change Conference in Nairobi, November 6, 2006 Experts at the United Nations' Climate Change conference in Kenya's capital have warned T...
By Leta Hong Fincher Washington, DC 26 October 2006 watch Politics Religion Evangelical organizations worried about conservative discontent with the Republican Party are rallying their followers to vote in November's midterm elections. At the same t...