Vietnamese-American Doctor Helps Rebuild Bodies, Lives To his patients at the Methodist Hospital of Houston, Doctor Tue Dinh is a miracle worker. Barbara Martinez came to him for help after surgery to fix a hernia left her with a painful and dangerou...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道。 On July ninth, South Sudan becomes the world's one hundred ninety-third nation. Almost ninety-nine percent of voters last month chose independence from...
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. President Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln did not live to see the final surrender of the armies of the Confederacy. A Confederate sympathizer shot the president at Ford's T...
Salbi's Women for Women International gives women who've survived war the tools to rebuild their lives Mohamed Elshinnawi | Washington, DC 15 December 2009 Zainab Salbi was named Washingtonian of the Year in 2006 by Washingtonian Magazine In 1993, Za...
The World Health Organization says it will help the government of Burma rebuild and re-equip health facilities, which had been destroyed and damaged by Cyclone Nargis, the worst storm to hit the country in 40 years. WHO says it has a clear plan as t...
By Doug Levine Washington 19 August 2007 One of the many thousands who lost their homes and belongings to Hurricane Katrina was New Orleans music legend and lifelong resident Fats Domino. Although it's been nearly two years since Katrina devastated t...
By Meredith Buel Washington 05 September 2006 Lebanese woman Zeinab Beydoun sits in her house that was damaged by an Israeli attack in southern town of Bint Jbeil, September 4, 2006 Lebanese officials say the month-long fighting between Israel and H...
By Margaret Besheer Haret Hreik, Lebanon 20 August 2006 As soon as the U.N. brokered cease-fire went into effect in Lebanon last Monday, Hezbollah's social welfare machine shifted into high gear. The organization, which is branded a terrorist group...
By Margaret Kennedy New Orleans 07 July 2006 watch New Orleans report New Orleans has been rebuilding since Hurricane Katrina struck the city last August. Broken levees are repaired and between a third and half of the population has returned. Still,...
By Jeffrey Young At the end of 1995, after three years of war, Bosnia and Herzegovina was bloodsoaked. The conflict among Serbs, Croats, and Muslims - the so-called Bosniaks -- had shattered Sarajevo...