Burma's $8.5 Billion Port Project Facing Hurdles BANGKOK When Burma's planned Dawei deep-sea port and special economic zone are finished, a highway, railway and pipeline will connect Southeast Asia's largest industrial zone to Thailands primary comme...
AS IT IS - Afghan Women's Writing Project This is AS IT IS. Im Caty Weaver. On the show today we tell about some a writing program for women in Afghanistan and a private school in Washington, DC, for poor African-American girls. The Afghan Womens Wri...
SCO to agree package of multilateral projects...
EXPLORATIONS - Race to the Moon: The Days of Project Gemini EXPLORATIONS -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (MUSIC) SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Today, Harry Monroe and Tony Riggs report about America's second manned space program, Gemini....
Agriculture report - Project in DRC Aims to Increase Fertilizer Use This is the VOA Special English Agriculture report. North Kivu is a war-torn province that used to be called the breadbasket of the Congo. Now, some farmers are being trained to incr...
Conservation Project at Risk from Mai Mai Attack The hunt continues for the Mai Mai militia that attacked a DRC conservation project in June. Six people were killed, as well as 14 endangered animals called Okapi, or forest giraffe. The attack occurre...
BEIJING, June 4 (Xinhua) -- China's central and local governments had invested 105 billion yuan (16.6 billion U.S. dollars) in its award and subsidy mechanism for village-level public projects by 2011, and around 985,000 public projects were built in...
Broadcast: Feb 05, 2003 Two of the world's most innovative design teams have won the right to compete in what is possibly the most high profile design project in history, the site of New York's destro...
Broadcast: Jan 28,2003 Four schools around the United States are taking part in a project that honors women pioneers in the arts, sports, media, and other fields. The program is designed to inspire st...
By Rebecca Ward Bringing Athens' transportation up to speed ahead of the summer games proved more difficult than what most modern cities usually endure, as massive construction projects turned into ex...