Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi late Tuesday as part of the Obama administration's policy review of the Afghan conflict and related unrest in Pakistan. Qureshi said his government is determined...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Americans use the term college students to mean students either in colleges or universities. Not only that, Americans almost never say going off to university or when I was in university. That sounds...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. This week in our Foreign Student Series, we discuss the first steps for students interested in higher education in the United States. One place to go for advice and information about American college...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A listener in Poland recently sent us an e-mail. Slawek Loboda writes: There are many American universities and colleges that provide long distance education to the world. The trouble is that each un...
By Rory Byrne Phnom Penh 14 April 2008 Cambodia has temporarily banned marriages between foreigners and Cambodians because of concerns over the rising number of brokered unions involving poor, uneducated women. The move follows the publication of a r...
By Malcolm Brown Washington 17 March 2008 U.S. officials are calling an ongoing campaign to attract foreign students to American colleges and universities a success. They point to a rise in applications and enrollments as an indication the campaign i...
By Bill Rodgers Washington, DC 08 September 2006 watch Journalist at Risk Jill Carroll while in captivity Foreign correspondents for western media outlets have always faced dangers in the field. But recently western journalists have become high-valu...
By Challiss McDonough Beirut 18 July 2006 Western nations are moving to evacuate thousands of their citizens from Lebanon as Israel's air strikes there intensify. The airport and seaports have been closed after being repeatedly bombed, and most of t...