Users of Americas Largest Ports Fear US-China Trade War The combined California ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are the largest in the United States. An estimated $417 billion worth of goods pass through the two ports each year. About $362 billio...
Rivers Dry, Iranian Farmers Turn to Protest A small group of Iranian farmers drove their tractors to the entrance to the town of Varzaneh. The vehicles stopped next to a canal that once provided their crops, but has been dry for years. The farmers ap...
Twenty-five young musicians from around the world have come to California to train and perform this month. They will take part in an international program called iPalpiti. The name comes from the Italian word for heartbeats. Eduard Schmieder is the p...
Now, the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. On this program we explore common expressions in American English. Today we are talking about two things that at first seem unrelated -- changing your mind, and shoes. Okay, first shoes....
Young people graduating from colleges and universities in the United States face increasing amounts of debt. Some colleges however are now offering students another way to pay for their studies. They pay for a students education in return for a perce...
Facebook Suffers Huge One-Day Drop in Market Value Facebook share prices dropped almost 20 percent Thursday. That is believed to be the largest one-day drop of any company on the American stock market. 脸书网股价周四大跌了近20%，这被认为...
Will Action Rule Again at American Movie Theaters This Weekend? It was a battle of two very different sequels in American movie theaters last weekend. The action film The Equalizer 2 narrowly won out over the musical Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. Equa...
Ruling Party Faces Little Challenge in Cambodia's Election Cambodians vote Sunday for all 125 seats in the country's National Assembly. Prime Minister Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party is expected to stay in power. The party has won every election f...
Report Says More Than 200 Land Activists Killed Last Year A new report says killings of land and environmental activists rose in 2017. The environmental and human rights group Global Witness reports that Mexico and the Philippines registered sharp in...
Video Shows Man Believed to be Last of Amazon Tribe Brazils Indian Foundation has released a video that shows images of a man believed to be the last surviving member of his tribe. No one knows the mans name or that of his tribe. It appears he has li...
Pakistans Imran Khan Declares Victory Former cricket star Imran Khan has declared victory for his political party in Pakistans general elections. Pakistani television stations say Khans PTI party, has a commanding lead in the voting. But the national...
Longest Lunar Eclipse of the Century This is Whats Trending Today The longest lunar eclipse of the century will happen late Friday or early Saturday, depending on where you live. The American space agency NASA says the moon will move into the Earths...
Water Is Buried Beneath Mars Surface, Study Says A huge lake of salty water appears to be buried deep in Mars, scientists reported this week. The presence of water raises the chances of finding life on the red planet. The discovery is based on observ...
Marie Kondo is an internationally-known expert on cleaning. Her first book, called the The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, was published in Japanese in 2011. It has sold more than 10 million copies in more than 40 countries. Yet fans want more hel...
Improve Your Writing with Inversion, Part 1 In English, the traditional word order of a statement is subject + verb. Never do we change the order except when asking a question. Or do we? If you listened closely, you may have noticed that my statement...
