Oscars Honoring, Correcting Past History The 90th Academy Awards honored the best films of 2017. Mexican director Guillermo del Toro was the big winner with the Best Picture and Best Director Oscars for his film The Shape of Water. 第90届奥斯卡颁...
Study: Ebola Crisis Damaged Liberian Health Care System A new study says more than 100,000 malaria cases went untreated in Liberia during the height of the Ebola crisis. The deadly virus spread in West Africa for two years beginning in 2014. The dise...
Anti-EU Parties Win in Italy, Not Enough to Govern Two anti-European Union parties appear to be the biggest winners in Italys parliamentary elections on Sunday. 周日两大反欧盟政党成为意大利议会选举的最大赢家。 However, neither...
US Aircraft Carrier Makes First Visit to Vietnam Since War An American aircraft carrier has arrived at a Vietnamese port for the first time since the Vietnam War. The USS Carl Vinson arrived Monday in the central city of Danang and will remain for se...
South Korean Officials Meet with North Korean Leader Kim Special envoys for South Korean President Moon Jae-in reportedly met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un Monday. Moons office said the envoys were to meet with North Korean officials and to at...
Trump Is 'Not Backing Down' on Tariffs Plan U.S. President Donald Trump said he is not backing down on his plan to raise taxes, known as tariffs, on imported steel and aluminum. However, members of his Republican Party and leaders around the world ar...
Can Wood Be Stronger Than Steel? Researchers say they have created a new super-material in the laboratory. They say it is stronger, lighter and costs less than steel. 研究人员表示，他们在实验室中造出了一种新的超级材料。他们称...
Writer Helen Thorpe spent one school year in a classroom in Denver, Colorado. There, she observed immigrant and refugee students who had come from different cultures. All the students were just learning to speak English. Thorpe saw the young people d...
Elephants have had a rich history in Myanmar, the country also known as Burma. Throughout the countrys past, the animals have been used for everything, including transportation, agriculture and warfare. The white elephant was a symbol of power for th...
A Crisis in Pain Drugs Leads to Greater Use of Acupuncture American veteran Jeff Harris was one of the first people to ask for acupuncture when veterans hospital in Providence, Rhode Island began to offer it. I don't like taking pain medication. I do...
Caty Weaver: Welcome, Penelope Poulou, our VOA movie correspondent! How are you doing? Penelope Poulou: Im great, its great to be here. CW: Well, thank you very much for doing it. Our listeners really love American movies. Watching them is one of the...
Benin, French Presidents to Discuss Returning African Artifacts French President Emmanuel Macron will meet with the president of Benin not long after he promised to return artifacts taken from Africa during colonial times. Macron will meet with Benin...
Refugee Women Get a Taste of Starting a Business When refugees arrive in a new country, they bring few possessions. But many bring something more valuable: their skills. Recently, twenty refugee women and asylum seekers met at a pop-up store in Phoen...
Stay on Your Toes! Now, its time for the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. Each week, we explore the meaning of expressions in American English. We often take terms and examine them from head to toe -- looking at each and every de...
