Indias Rice Export Restrictions Affects Asia, Africa India's decision to halt some rice exports to prevent high prices at home has had affects stretching across Asia to Africa, observers say. Rice prices in Kenya, for example, jumped when Russia inva...
Medicinal Earthworms Sought in Vietnam to Fill Chinese Demand China is facing a continuing decrease in its supply of earthworms used for medicine. Hunters in Vietnam are attempting to catch the animals to meet Chinese demand. Chinese traditional medi...
William Taft: Heavy VOA Learning English presents America's Presidents. Today we are talking about William Howard Taft, who took office in 1909. In some ways, the story of Taft's presidency is also a story about Theodore Roosevelt's presidency. Roose...
Ukrainian Child War Diaries Presented in Netherlands An exhibition of war stories and artwork from children in Ukraine recently opened in the Netherlands. The event is being held in Amsterdam, where Anne Frank wrote her famous World War II diaries as...
Saudi Arabia, Iran among Six Countries Joining BRICS 沙特、伊朗等六国将加入金砖国家经济组织 Iran and Saudi Arabia are among six countries set to join the BRICS economic group next year. The United Arab Emirates (UAE), Argentina, Eg...
Explosion Likely Brought Down Wagner Chief's Plane Intelligence officials from the United States and Western countries believe that an explosion brought down the plane presumed to carry Wagner group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and others. One of the off...
Japan to Release Wastewater from Fukushima Nuclear Plant Japan's Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, signed off Tuesday on his country's plan to release treated and diluted radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant later this week. If weathe...
Wealthy Developer Is Thai's New Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin is Thailand's new prime minister after winning a parliamentary vote Tuesday. He is the wealthy leader of one of Thailand's best-known property companies. He was elected prime minister ju...
Early Literacy: Vocabulary The words we use to speak, write, and read are called our vocabulary. We need a strong vocabulary to share ideas. Teaching tips for vocabulary An English teacher should focus heavily on building vocabulary. When you teach y...
Rights Group: Saudi Border Guards Shot, Killed Ethiopian Migrants The rights group Human Rights Watch has accused border guards in Saudi Arabia of killing Ethiopian migrants who tried to cross over into the kingdom from Yemen. The group said it got i...
Venezuelas Lake Maracaibo Is Getting More Polluted 委内瑞拉马拉开波湖污染愈发严重 Fishermen who work on Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo say fish stocks are decreasing as pollution grows worse. 委内瑞拉马拉开波湖的渔民表示，随着...
Theodore Roosevelt: Energetic VOA Learning English presents America's Presidents. Today we are talking about Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States. Many Americans like to call him Teddy Roosevelt or even T.R. These nicknames for...
Climate Change Creates Questions for Alaska's Tourist Economy Alaska's Mendenhall glacier is about 20 minutes by car from Juneau, the state capital. It is one of the area's most popular sites for tourists. But climate change has caused the ice to mel...
African Leadership Groups Concerned about Military Takeover in Niger Defense leaders from the West African group of nations known as ECOWAS are meeting to discuss the political crisis in Niger. The leaders are concerned. The military group that ouste...
Is VinFast Worth More than VW, Ford? 越南VinFast汽车上市 市值超过大众和福特 Shares of Vietnam's electric car company VinFast started publicly trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange on Tuesday. By the end of the first trading day, investo...
