Fashion Show Brings Hope to Congo Miki Sikabwe is a fashion designer from Congo. She has trained in Rwanda, Burundi and Kenya. She has never had the chance to show her work in Congo because of security issues. 米琪斯卡碧唯是一名刚果时装设...
90 Percent of Kenyan Students Failed Secondary Exams In Kenya, some 90 percent of students who took the 2017 secondary education exams failed. Opposition lawmakers are calling on the government to investigate why so many students did not pass. The mi...
Ukraine, Pro-Russian Forces Trade Prisoners to Mark the New Year Ukraine and pro-Russian separatist rebels had the largest exchange of prisoners on Wednesday since the start of the conflict in 2014. 乌克兰同亲俄分离主义反叛分子周三进行...
Vietnam Launches Operation to Fight Against 'Wrong' Views Vietnam has launched a new operation to fight what the government has called wrong views on the Internet. The new cyber combat operation, Force 47, has 10,000 members. It is part of the govern...
Welcome back to Everyday Grammar from VOA Learning English. Today we return to a very common verb form in English phrasal verbs. You will find one phrasal verb in every 192 words of written English. They will make your English sound more natural once...
South Korea said on Tuesday that North Korea would look to negotiate with the United States in the coming year. The prediction came as North Korea called the latest U.S.-led sanctions an act of war. Last week, the U.N. Security Council unanimously pl...
On Monday, Russian election officials formally barred anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny from running for president in the March 18 election. Over the past year, Navalny has launched a grassroots campaign to challenge the current president, Vlad...
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori asked for forgiveness on Tuesday for mistakes during his authoritarian rule of the country. His statement came amid protests that began after Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski pardoned Fujimori on Dec...
Many people have long believed Apple intentionally slows down performance of iPhones in an effort to get users to buy new ones. For the first time, Apple has admitted to slowing some iPhones down. But the company explained it only took the action las...
In 2012, Rena Sard was sentenced to five years in prison at the Maryland Correctional Institute for Women. She was 47 years old. I didnt have five years of my life to wasteSo, every chance that I had to do something that was productive, something tha...
Environmental Group Says Japan Helping Ivory Trade An environmental group has criticized Japan's controls over its ivory supply. 一个环保组织批评日本控制其象牙供应。 A report released with the support of the World Wildlife Fund this...
'A Visit From St. Nicholas' In 1822, an American professor named Clement Clarke Moore wrote a poem that redefined the image of Saint Nicholas. It was called Account of a Visit from Saint Nicholas. He did not expect it to be published. He wrote it as...
Now, the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. On this show, we explore the origins and usage of common expressions in American English. Sometimes we tie the show to an event or special time of the year. This show could be tied to any...
The Art of Walking, The Joy of Garbage, Unusual College Classes How much can walking really teach you? Can you learn enough from walking to make an entire college class about it? Kenneth Keffer thinks you can, and he should know. Keffer has been teac...
Pro-independence parties have won a majority of parliamentary seats in the northern Spanish area of Catalonia. The results are a victory for supporters of the movement to break away from Spain. However, pro-independence parties won just two seats abo...
