This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Thailand's prime minister is urging national unity after ten weeks of anti-government protests in the capital. Abhisit Vejjajiva says the government has returned order in Bangkok and the provinces. In a spe...
DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to American Mosaic in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Doug Johnson. Today we listen to new music from the Deftones ... And we answer a question about a great American writer .... But first we report on an exciting change in the...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Officials in Washington recently lost a ruling over their power to enforce competition on the Internet. Now the Federal Communications Commission has a new plan. The F.C.C. currently defines high-spee...
BARBARA KLEIN: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. In our last program, we told you how the flow of immigration to the United States began to change in the eighteen eighties. Before then, most of the immigrants...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. An international conference took place this week in Dakar, Senegal, to find new ways to get and keep girls in school. The United Nations Children's Fund says nearly seventy-two million children were n...
STEVE EMBER: Im Steve Ember. BARBARA KLEIN: And Im Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Visitors to Washington, D.C. this summer can see a powerful exhibit that tells about a dark period in American history. The exhibit at the Smit...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Rheumatoid arthritis is a painful disease that can destroy joints. Women are three times more likely to get it than men. Rheumatoid arthritis is considered an autoimmune disease, a disease where the body...
BOB DOUGHTY: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. FAITH LAPIDUS: And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week, the stories of some medical heroes. (MUSIC) BOB DOUGHTY: At the start of the twentieth century, the United States Army...
Grafting is a way to produce plants from pieces of existing plants instead of seeds. Branches or buds are cut from one plant and placed on a related kind of plant. The branch or bud that is grafted is called the scion. The plant that accepts the graf...
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember. This week on our program, we tell about Nashville, Tennessee, and its efforts to recover from severe flooding. (MUSIC) SHIRLEY...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Delegates from around the world have agreed on a new plan to end the worst kinds of child labor by two thousand sixteen. More than four hundred fifty delegates from eighty countries approved the pla...
STEVE EMBER: I'm Steve Ember. BARBARA KLEIN: And I'm Barbara Klein with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about James Brown, the musician called The Godfather of Soul. (MUSIC) STEVE EMBER: That was James Brown singing his famous...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Obama nominated Elena Kagan to the United States Supreme Court this week. She would replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the nine-member Court. BARACK OBAMA:I have selected a nominee who...
DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to American Mosaic in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Doug Johnson. Today on our show we listen to the great singer Lena Horne, who died this week at age ninety-two And we answer a question about the inventor of the telephone. B...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. European Union officials agreed on a debt rescue plan this week. They also got a message from Britain's new governing parties. WILLIAM HAGUE: It was not difficult to agree between us that neither part...
