By Steve Herman New Delhi 11 March 2007 Chairman and Chief Executive of Suzuki Osamu Suzuki (L) and Managing Director of Maruti Udyog Limited Jagdish Khattar (R) after inaugurating Maruti-Suzuki's new autoplant at Manesar, 06 Feb 2007 Business leade...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 11 March 2007 India has traditionally been a nation of tea-drinkers, but coffee is beginning A visitor sips coffee next to a poster advertising a coffee brand at the India International Coffee Festival 2007 in Bangalore (...
By Paula Wolfson Montevideo, Uruguay 11 March 2007 President Bush travels to Bogota Saturday amid extremely tight security in the Colombian capital. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports he is going to show his support for Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. Pre...
By Barry Newhouse Baghdad 11 March 2007 At a regional security conference in Baghdad, Iraqi leaders focused on the positive role Iraq's neighbors can play in improving security, but they also warned the country must not be used as a battleground for...
By Stefan Bos Budapest 11 March 2007 A year of talks on the future of Kosovo has ended without agreement between Serbia's government and Kosovo's independence-seeking ethnic Albanian leadership. The U.N. mediator in the talks said he would present th...
By Alan Silverman Holloywood 11 March 2007 The American immigrant saga has a South Asian flavor in a new film adapted from the best-selling novel by Jhumpa Lahiri about two generations of a Bengali family living in the United States. Alan Silverman h...
By Michael Bowman Montevideo 10 March 2007 Thousands of Uruguayans took to the streets of Montevideo to protest President Bush's arrival in their country late Friday. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from the Uruguayan capital, where Mr. Bush is making t...
By Paula Wolfson Montevideo, Uruguay 10 March 2007 President Bush says he is following a quiet approach to diplomacy with Latin America that is yielding results. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports from Montevideo, Uruguay, where the president is facing rep...
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 09 March 2007 Democrats controlling the U.S. Congress are confronting President Bush on a broad range of issues regarding his handling of the war in Iraq, and the larger war on terrorism, as well as domestic issues. Cong...
By Paula Wolfson Sao Paulo, Brazil 09 March 2007 President Bush says his administration has not ignored Latin America, and says his tour of the region was not designed to counter the anti-American rhetoric of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. VOA White House...
By Sonja Pace London 09 March 2007 Three years ago Sunday, Islamic terrorists carried out a series of coordinated bombings on commuter trains in Madrid, killing 191 people and injuring nearly 1,800 others. For Europeans, it was a wake-up call that a...
By Jim Malone Washington 09 March 2007 Two more notable Republicans are considering a run for U.S. president next year. We have details from VOA National correspondent Jim Malone in Washington. Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel and former House Speaker N...
By Simon Marks Caracas 09 March 2007 watch Venezuela report Hugo Chavez Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is at odds with U.S. President George W. Bush, straining relations between their two countries. But opinion polls show Mr. Chavez has the support...
By Jim Fry Washington 09 March 2007 watch Afghanistan Strategy report U.S.-led coalition forces in eastern Afghanistan say they have captured a bomb-making expert with links to al-Qaida. The capture of Mullah Mahmood in Jalalabad follows an increase...
By Phuong Tran Praia, Cape Verde 09 March 2007 Located far off the western coast of Africa, the tiny islands that make up Cape Verde are mostly barren volcanic rock. But the lack of natural resources has actually benefited the country in one way: it...
