By Kurt Achin Kyoto 04 May 2007 Asia's economic development is a success story that has been decades in the making. But in the past decade, the region has become a key factor in a global imbalance marked by too much reliance on exports by countries i...
By Claudia Blume Hong Kong 02 May 2007 As the latest World Trade Organization round of talks loses momentum, bilateral and regional free trade agreements are mushrooming in Asia. Claudia Blume reports from VOA's Asia News Center in Hong Kong. US Trad...
By Jim Bertel Washington 25 April 2007 The release last year of former Vice President Al Gore's award-winning film An Inconvenient Truth has turned global warming into a hot topic of concern in the United States. One of the film's producers, Laurie D...
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 17 April 2007 Experts say global warming is likely to affect people living in Africa more than on any other continent and warn that African policymakers must begin to prepare for such an event. An international panel of exp...
By Cathrine Drew London 12 April 2007 Watch EarthFireIce report A South African man and his British friend have launched a campaign to get people around the world to help fight global warming. They call it the EarthFireIce campaign, and they want pe...
By Paul Sisco Washington 09 April 2007 Watch World Climate report Thousands of climate scientists and government policy administrators from more than 120 countries worked on the report for six years. After a reported all night session on April 5, the...
By Sean Maroney Washington 28 March 2007 watch Global Elections report Challenges to democracy in the complex world of the 21st century are the topic of a week-long conference that opened in Washington Tuesday. Sponsored by the Global Electoral Orga...
By Tendai Maphosa London 27 March 2007 The United Nations along with other organizations has proposed a new global fund to fight international human trafficking and forced labor, which it says have grown to epidemic proportions. The report was launch...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 22 March 2007 A new report says the global tuberculosis epidemic has leveled off for the first time since the World Health Organization declared TB a public health emergency in 1993. WHO's Global Tuberculosis Control report fi...
By Melinda Smith Washington, D.C. 21 March 2007 watch Tuberculosis US report Beginning around 1995, the United States experienced a steady decline in the rate of tuberculosis. But in the last three years, health experts have noticed something distur...