Strong Defense at Cold Harbor Gives Lee His Last Major Victory 冷港防御战让李赢得最后一次大胜利 From VOA Learning English, this is The Making of a Nation. Im Kelly Jean Kelly. And Im Christopher Cruise. In 1864, President Abraham Linc...
AS IT IS 2014-11-27 Thanksgiving, a Traditional American Holiday 感恩节,美国传统节日 Thanksgiving is celebrated every year on the fourth Thursday of November. The month of November comes in autumn, the main season for harvesting crops. Thank...
East Meets West to Treat Alzheimer's Patients 西医结合东方哲学思想治疗阿尔兹海默病 From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. November is Alzheimers Awareness Month in the United States. Alzheimers is a frightening diseas...
New Violence Hits Ferguson, Missouri An American grand jury ruling has resulted in new violence in the city of Ferguson, Missouri. The jurors decided not to charge a white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed African American teenager last A...
AS IT IS 2014-11-26 Central African Republic Losing the Next Generation 中非共和国跨倒的一代人 The Central African Republic has been unsettled since 2013. First, the Seleka rebel group ousted the government. The Seleka fighters were mostly...
AS IT IS 2014-11-26 Group Claims Gender Equality Will End Hunger, Poverty A Christian aid group says problems like hunger, malnutrition and poverty cannot be solved until and unless women are treated as well as men. The group Bread for the World rele...
Dutch Experiment Grows Vegetables in Sea Water 荷兰人试验在海水中种植蔬菜 Climate change has caused a rise in sea levels. This has increased the amount of salt in fresh water used on coastal farms. As a result farmers are increasingly un...
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Resigns 美国国防部长哈格尔辞职 President Barack Obama announced Monday that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is resigning after almost two years in the position. President Obama spoke at the white House with M...
AS IT IS 2014-11-25 African Union Promises to End Child Marriage 非盟承诺结束童婚 The African Union has sworn to stop all child marriages within a generation. The African nation of Mozambique has one of the highest rates of child marriage in...
AS IT IS 2014-11-25 US Politicians Debate 'Net Neutrality' 美国政客辩论网络中立 Another political fight is taking shape in Washington, D.C. At issue: proposed changes to the way the Internet is regulated in the United States. One side wants...
US Hosts Record Number of Foreign Students Almost 900,000 international students are studying in American colleges and universities today. Nearly half of this record number of foreign students are from Asia, mainly China. They are among people from o...
AS IT IS 2014-11-24 Filipino Fishermen Turn to Fiberglass for New Boats 菲律宾渔民转用玻璃钢造船 Last year, a typhoon seriously damaged Leyte Island in the Philippines. More than 7,300 people died or are missing. Four million Filipinos lo...
What's the Matter? Now, the VOA Learning English program, Words and Their Stories. The English language has a number of hard-working words. People use these words in many different ways and in many different expressions. One such example is the word...
AS IT IS 2014-11-23 Cambodian Opposition Criticize Dependence on Chinese Aid 柬埔寨批评对中国援助的依赖 Cambodian opposition members say they are worried about the country becoming too dependent on aid money from China. The Chinese gover...
AS IT IS 2014-11-23 Latin America Catholics Converting to Protestants 大量拉丁美洲天主教众皈依新教 Almost 40 percent of the worlds Catholic population, about 425 million people, lives in Latin America. In 2013, for the first time in his...
