EXPLORATIONS - A Visit to Volcanoes National Park and Haleakala National Park MARIO RITTER: Welcome to the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Im Mario Ritter. Today, Steve Ember and Sarah Long tell us about two of the most unusual national par...
AMERICAN MOSAIC - A Novel Set in Hurricane Katrina Wins National Book Award DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Doug Johnson. Today we play music from the first album of the West Coast band Blouse ... And we an...
BEIJING, Nov. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- The amount of trans fat and other nutritional information will be marked on the labels of prepackaged food, according to the country's first national standard for food nutrition. The labeling will take effect on Jan 1,...
US National Park Attendance Declines Would you like to visit one of Americas awe-inspiring national parks? Yosemite in California, perhaps, with its soaring cliffs and cascading waterfalls? Or something warmer as fall turns into winter here in the no...
National Weather Satellite Threatened by US Budget Cuts On May 22, 2011, a single massive tornado hit Joplin, Missouri, claiming more than 150 lives. But the death toll would have been much higher a century ago. With something of this magnitude, the...
SHENZHEN, June 18 (Xinhua) -- China established its first national gene bank on Friday in south China's city of Shenzhen with the support of the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), officials said. With the establishment of the National Gene Bank in She...
Education Report - No National Standards: A Strength or Weakness of US Schools This is the VOA Special English Education Report. What American students are expected to learn has long been different from state to state. We talked last week about the t...
Guinea-Bissau's Lone Brewery Hopes to Tap National Pride Through coups, conflicts and other upheavals, one constant for many West African countries has been the presence of a national beer. After going years without one, Guinea-Bissau is now hoping t...
October the 16th is National Dictionary Day. It falls on this day because that is the birthday of Americas most famous dictionary maker, Noah Webster, who was born in 1758. It is a day for us all to get out our dictionaries and start using them more...
Playing video games is one of the worlds biggest hobbies. It only seems right, therefore, that there is a special day to celebrate it. National Video Games Day is the one day of the year you can go crazy playing your favourite games. Its OK to tell p...
