Upper-Intermediate - Protest! (D0018) A: This is Action 5 News reporter Sarah OConnell reporting live from Washington, D. C. where a protest has broken out. Thousands of angry citizens are protesting against the proposed bailout of the auto manufactu...
BEIJING, Sep.27 (Xinhuanet) --? As thousands of demonstrators(示威者 ) marched in European capitals on Wednesday to protest recent austerity measures, officials in Brussels proposed stiffening sanctions(制裁) for governments that fail to...
Scores killed in China protests Violence in China's restive (不安的,不稳定的) western region of Xinjiang has left at least 140 people dead and more than 800 people injured, state media say. Several hundred people have also been arrested after the...
Thousands protested in the Sudanese capital Khartoum after the announcement that the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for the country's president. Security has been beefed up in Khartoum and in Darfur as the country waits to...
Thailand's new prime minister has been forced to delay his policy statement. PM Abhisit Vejjajiva' government is seen as invalid by supporters of former PM Thaksin (file photo) Up to 9,000 anti-government protesters besieged the main thoroughfares t...
Demonstrations and protests over the death of a Greek teenager, who was shot by a police officer on Saturday, have continued throughout Greece and even spread to foreign capitals like London, Nicosia and Berlin. Four days after the shooting, the pro...
A year after Burma's military crushed protests led by Buddhist monks, human rights groups accuse the government of continuing to harass of the clergy. As Ron Corben reports from Bangkok, experts on Burma see little sign of change in the country, des...
The industrialist building the world's cheapest car is threatening to pull out of the Indian state of West Bengal if violent protests against his under-construction automobile factory do not cease. VOA Correspondent Steve Herman reports from New Del...
At least 13 people have died as Indian security forces opened fire on protests led by Muslim separatists in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Shahnawaz Khan reports for VOA from Srinagar that police killed four people Monday who were trying to lead a march...
U.S. President George Bush has arrived in Seoul, South Korea, the first stop on a week-long Asian tour that will also take him to Thailand and China for the opening of the Beijing Olympics. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports from the South Korean capital,...