Technology Report - Getting News From Around the World With Todays Front Pages This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. We recently told you about a website called PastPages.org. It saves the homepages of seventy news websites from around t...
IN THE NEWS - Anti-Putin Punk Rockers Await Judge's Verdict This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Next Friday, a judge in Moscow plans to announce her decision in the trial of three young women in a feminist punk rock band. The musicians are ac...
Economics Report - A New China-Taiwan Agreement Protects Investors This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. China and Taiwan may disagree on political issues. But on Thursday they reached an agreement to protect investors. The agreement is i...
AMERICAN MOSAIC - Summer Ramadan; Old News; Fleetwood Mac Tribute Album FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Faith Lapidus. This week, we play some older music recorded by newer bands We also report on Old News...
Economics Report - Saving Money for College This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. How much does a college education cost? In the United States, the College Board releases yearly reports on prices at colleges and universities. The group ba...
Education Report - IB Program Aims to Form 'Students of the World' 教育报道 - IB课程旨在塑造世界学生 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道。 The International Baccalaureate Orga...
THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: The Presidential Election of 1988 STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. This week in our series, we look at the presidential election of nine...
Education Report - Cambodians Get Lessons in Skateboarding, Life This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Some young Cambodians are learning a new sport -- skateboarding. The country's first skateboard park is located on the grounds of a loc...
Agriculture Report - China Looks to Ukraine for Food 农业报道 - 中国转向乌克兰寻求粮食来源 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 America is the worlds largest food export...
Health Report - Designing an Alternative to Antibiotics This is the VOA Special English Health Report. In nineteen twenty-eight a British scientist made a chance observation. He noticed that some mold had grown in bacteria in a culture plate in his l...
Health Report - The Global Problem of Preterm Births This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Premature or preterm births are defined as live births before a woman completes thirty-seven weeks of pregnancy. A new study found that about fifteen...
EXPLORATIONS - Project Mercury: Alan Shepard Becomes the First American in Space STEVE EMBER: This is Steve Ember. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And this is Shirley Griffith with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we finish the story of the firs...
SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Bonobos Threatened With Extinction FAITH LAPIDUS: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. Im Faith Lapidus. CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: And Im Christopher Cruise. Today we tell about an African ape, the bonobo. Bonobos were...
NASA's Curiosity Rover on Mars LAUREL BOWMAN: There will be several weeks of tests before NASA lets its robotic vehicle, called Curiosity, explore the surface of Mars. Curiosity will look for evidence that the planet once might have had conditions ne...
Agriculture report - Project in DRC Aims to Increase Fertilizer Use This is the VOA Special English Agriculture report. North Kivu is a war-torn province that used to be called the breadbasket of the Congo. Now, some farmers are being trained to incr...
