U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin looked to improve military relations with Vietnam during talks Thursday. 美国国防部长劳埃德奥斯汀在周四的会谈中寻求改善与越南的军事关系。 The closer security relations come more than...
Heavy rains have fallen for days on Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh. The floods have destroyed houses and sent thousands of people to live with relatives or in large shelters. In a 24 hour period this week, more than 30 centimeters of r...
In the Tokyo Games, there are several new Olympic sports: karate, skateboarding, sport climbing, surfing and baseball for men and softball for women. Baseball and softball are actually not new. The two sports have returned to Tokyo after some years a...
Electric Car Makers Seek Substitutes for Rare Earth Metals Western electric vehicle (EV) makers are trying to reduce their dependence on rare earth metals from China. As tensions rise between that nation and others, including the United States, maker...
The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden is considering ordering federal employees to prove that they have been vaccinated against COVID-19. Also under consideration are requirements for regular testing and wearing of face coverings or masks. 美...
American Simone Biles is widely considered to be the greatest gymnast of all time. 美国运动员西蒙拜尔斯被普遍认为是有史以来最伟大的体操运动员。 In the United States, she is the face of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. When the g...
China's foreign minister Wang Yi met Wednesday with a group of Taliban leaders from Afghanistan. China and the armed rebel movement appear to be seeking closer ties. Wang held the talks in the city of Tianjin. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a Taliban fo...
In the early 1990s, Canada had over 3,000 troops deployed in peacekeeping missions around the world. Today, it has only a few dozen. Canada is not the only Western country to have greatly reduced such missions. The drop in numbers, military experts s...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, recommended Tuesday that fully vaccinated Americans wear face-coverings in areas with substantial and high transmission of COVID-19. 美国疾控预防中心周二建议，接种过疫苗的美...
Watch Movie Trailers to Improve Your English The 2021 film Infinite centers on character Evan McCauley, who discovers that he has had several past lives. A group of other people with past-life experiences seek his help to find and destroy a device th...
This week at the Tokyo Olympics, many people are thinking more about the kind of sports clothing, or uniforms, female athletes wear. The clothing worn by Olympic gymnasts and by women who played in a beach handball competition in Europe gained attent...
The clothes that the German women's gymnastics team wore during the start of Olympic competition in Tokyo looked similar to the others. The lights shined off crystals across their front and down their arms. But the team's new Olympic clothing did not...
UN: More Women, Children Killed in Afghan Fighting The United Nations says more women and children were killed or wounded in Afghanistan in the first half of 2021 than in the first six months of any year since 2009. 联合国表示，2021年上半年阿...
Reports of COVID-19 infection among fully vaccinated people are increasing. Olympic athletes, lawmakers and heads of state are among the vaccinated who have tested positive for the virus. 完全接种过疫苗的人群当中感染新冠肺炎的报告开...
How to Control Weeds When Planting From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. No matter what you choose to grow in the garden, at some point, you will have to deal with unwanted plants, known as weeds. Lee Reich is a gardener, an...
