KATHMANDU, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Ban on smoking in public places will be enforced from Sunday with the Tobacco Control and Regulatory Act-2010 coming into effect. Those smoking in public places will be fined and civil servants will be liable to departme...
SYDNEY, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- The Western Australian Government announced on Friday that 14 new substances linked to the manufacture of the synthetic drug Kronic would be banned from Friday midnight. The State Mental Health Minister Helen Morton told th...
[00:00.00] REVIEW MODULE Story Time Unit 1 The First Great Carpenter [00:13.24]Activity 1.Listen and read.Once,a long time ago, [00:26.54]there was a boy called Lu Ban. [00:28.38]Lu Ban wanted to be a carpenter when he grew up. [00:33.00]In fact,he w...
by Adam Freedman Todays topic: Cameras in the delivery room. And now, your daily dose of legalese: This article does not create an attorney-client relationship with any listener. In other words, although I am a lawyer, Im not your lawyer. If you need...
[1] Iraqis are looking forward to Sunday's elections, but some fear possible chaos. The vote is Iraq's second nationwide election and comes at a vastly different time than the first in 2005. US troops have all but vanished from streets, but attacks c...
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has become the first international leader to visit the Gaza Strip following Israel's 22-day offensive. Israeli troops continue to pull out of the battered enclave, where Palestinian medical officials say 1,300 peop...
Libya has banned Switzerland's national carrier, Swiss International Air Lines, from flying to Tripoli. This is the latest twist in ongoing diplomatic row between countries over the arrest of Moammar Gadhafi's son, Hannibal. 'Technical reasons' prom...
The Asian Development Bank has developed a new benchmark to measure poverty in Asia. The ADB says in a region that has seen stellar growth rates and rising income inequality, its new Asian poverty line can help policy makers measure and compare pove...
With many people in Zimbabwe at the point of starvation, a government ban on field work by relief organizations is putting them at further risk. As Peta Thornycroft reports for VOA, even if the restrictions are lifted now, humanitarian groups say it...
A Pakistani court has upheld the detention of nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan and barred him from ever speaking about nuclear proliferation. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad that government lawyers say the ruling silencing the confess...
