AS IT IS 2014-09-03 Virginia Site Tests Drones for FAA Rules 维吉尼亚测试无人机以帮助航空管理局制定发展规则 The Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA, has chosen a university town in Virginia as one of six places to test dron...
AS IT IS 2014-09-03 US Citizens Fighting and Dying for Jihadist Groups 加入圣战组织的美国公民 That recording is from a jihadist video available on the Internet. The video reportedly shows U.S. citizen Moner Mohammad abu-Salha. It is part o...
AS IT IS 2014-09-03 Low Birthrate Threatens South Korea's Survival 低出生率威胁韩国生存 South Koreas National Assembly Research Service says no one will be living in the country by 2750 if women there do not start having more children. Last...
Street Vendor Helps Poor to Learn English and Japanese 越南街头小贩帮助穷苦孩子学习英语和日语 In Vietnam, two members of a family of street vendors -- street sellers -- are finding a way to help the poorest students in Hanoi. Pham...
Scientists Develop a Robot That Can Assemble Itself 科学家们开发一个机器人 可以组装本身 Origami is the Japanese art of shaping paper to look like animals, flowers and other objects. Now, Harvard University scientists have modeled, or...
AS IT IS 2014-09-02 Alibaba Seeks to Raise Billions in IPO 阿里巴巴在首次公开募股中,力图筹集数十亿美元 Investors in the United States are preparing for the first public sale of stock in the Chinese company Alibaba. The company se...
Go Away! You're Buggin' Me! 走开，你别烦我! Now, the VOA Special English program Words and Their Stories. 这里是美国之音慢速英语词汇掌故故事。 There are many American expressions about insects -- like bees, for example. Bees...
AS IT IS 2014-08-31 Conflicts, Ebola Put More Demands on UNICEF 冲突不断和埃博拉病毒的肆虐，对联合国儿童基金会提出更多的要求 The United Nations Childrens Fund UNICEF says August has been its busiest month for emergency a...
AS IT IS 2014-08-31 It's an Emergency in Any Language In most countries, people can make a telephone call to ask for medical or police help using just three numbers. In the European Union, the number is 1-1-2. Some Asian countries use 9-9-9. In North...
Can Islamic State Militants Attack the US? 伊斯兰国家武装分子会攻击美国吗? From VOA Learning English, this is In The News. The United States is seeking to build an international alliance to stop the threat from Islamic State militants...
Will Technology Drive the Drive-In Out of Business? More and more movie theaters around the world are replacing older equipment with modern technology. The new equipment heightens the movie-watchers experience. The images are sharper, the sound is cl...
AS IT IS 2014-08-30 Vietnam, We Have a Nutrition Problem 越南有一个营养问题,很多儿童营养不良 Vietnam has a nutrition problem: too many of its children are underweight. Yet more and more Vietnamese boys and girls are becoming overweig...
