The immediate outlook for Asia's tourism industry remains bleak as most major markets report sharp falls in visitor arrivals. There are hopes a recovery will come in 2010. Fishermen sit on boats at lake near Mount Kinabalu, the tallest peak in South...
Full recovery for two hearts girl Hannah's story: I was the first one, I didn't know what was going to happen A 16-year-old girl from Wales who made history when, as a baby, she had a donor heart grafted (接枝) onto her own has made a full recover...
Search teams are spreading out along the U.S. Gulf Coast, looking for people stranded after Hurricane Ike. Emergency officials in Texas say they have rescued about 2,000 people who ignored evacuation orders and were stranded by Hurricane Ike. They s...
By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 26 December 2007 Areas of Indonesia devastated by the Indian Ocean Tsunami are marking the third anniversary of one of the worst natural disasters in modern history. As the effort to build housing and roads wraps up, reconstr...
By Daniel Schearf Islamabad 08 October 2007 Pakistan is commemorating the second anniversary of a devastating earthquake that took the lives of more than 73,000 people and left millions homeless. The government and aid workers have declared reconstru...
What is Your Recovery Rate ? By Graham Harris What is your recovery rate? How long does it take you to recover from actions and behaviors that upset you? Minutes? Hours? Days? Weeks? The longer it takes you to recover, the more influence that inciden...
By Greg Flakus Houston 02 August 2007 Officials in Minneapolis are preparing for more sad news as recovery efforts go forward on the Mississippi River, where a major bridge collapsed Wednesday. There are only four confirmed deaths from the incident,...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 05 April 2006 A Kashmiri earthquake survivor looks for his belongings under the debris of his house in Camsera, Neelum Valley (file dec 2005) The International Federation of Red...
By Deborah Block Washington, D.C. 27 February 2006 watch New Orleans report It has been six months since Hurricane Katrina slammed into the city of New Orleans, Louisiana and parts of the U.S. Gulf Co...
By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: September 25, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. More than one-million school children in the United States have gone through a progra...