This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The lack of clean drinking water is a major problem worldwide. The World Health Organization says more than one billion people live in areas where renewable water resources are not available. The pr...
FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to PEOPLE IN AMERICA, a program in VOA Special English. Today Rich Kleinfeldt and Steve Ember tell about one of Americas most popular singers, Elvis Presley. (MUSIC) RICH KLEINFELDT: That song, Hound Dog, was one of Elvis Presl...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. In Russia this week, a series of suicide bombings increased concerns about terrorism. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev made a surprise visit Thursday to the North Caucasus. He called for more severe measur...
DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to American Mosaic, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Doug Johnson. Today we tell about South by Southwest, the major music conference in Austin, Texas. And we answer a listener question about the meaning of the stars on Americ...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. More than fifty countries and organizations have promised to give more than five billion dollars to help Haiti rebuild after an earthquake destroyed much of the country in January. United Nations Secr...
BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. The United States began to expand west during the middle eighteen hundreds. People settled in the great open areas of the Dakotas, Utah, Wyoming, and California....
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Two new studies have investigated why fewer females, compared to males, study and work in the so called STEM subjects in the United States. Those subjects are science, technology, engineering and math...
