South Korean exports are world-renowned among those who shop for mobile phones or flat-screen TVs. But the country is offering a different export to a small Indonesian community - its writing system. Members of an Indonesian ethnic group called the C...
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has received the report of an international commission of inquiry into September's killing of opposition protesters in Guinea. Human rights leaders in Guinea say the international community must hold accountable tho...
The World Health Organization reports a treatment program called DOTS has cured 36 million people with tuberculosis and saved up to eight-million lives during the past 15 years Lisa Schlein | Geneva 08 December 2009 New data show the World Health Org...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Im Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: Jesse Sullivan was an electrical worker who lost both of his arms while working on power lines And Im Barbara Klein. This week, we will tell about an American...
By Carol Pearson Washington, DC 14 February 2008 Back pain is one of the most common problems plaguing aging societies. And Americans are now spending more money than ever before to treat it. But a new study says that some of the treatments do not se...
By Carol Pearson Washington 04 October 2007 Experts say heart disease and stroke are the leading cause of death among women throughout the world. Yet, a new study by Duke University in North Carolina shows, as in much of the world, women in the U.S....
By Brian Padden Irbil, Iraq 27 September 2007 Recent outbreaks of cholera in parts of Iraq highlight the need for basic services like clean water.Development projects in much of the country have been delayed because of the deteriorating security situ...
By Tendai Maphosa London 18 July 2007 Global AIDS treatment will fall far short of a target to have five million people in Africa being treated in the next few years. A new report reveals that the continued lack of access to drugs by many of the worl...
By Melinda Smith Washington 10 July 2007 A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that older people who carry certain genes are more susceptible to a loss of their central vision. That loss of sight is an advanced form...
By David McAlary Washington 29 November 2006 As World AIDS Day approaches on December 1, activists complain that the international community is falling short of providing treatment for HIV in developing countries. VOA's David McAlary reports that th...