By Derek Kilner Nairobi 23 November 2007 The Food and Agriculture Organization has cautioned that an outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in Sudan could spread rapidly in coming weeks due to the widespread movement of livestock in preparation for the Muslim...
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 04 October 2007 The Egyptian government is trying to head off a new wave of labor strikes that have erupted since a standoff at a key textile plant last week. Workers at a number of factories around the country have announ...
By Luis Ramirez Bangkok 24 August 2007 Reports from Burma say protests over a doubling of fuel prices appear to be spreading beyond the main city, Rangoon, to other parts of the country. Witnesses say security forces have fanned out across Rangoon to...
By Sonja Pace London 15 August 2007 A British parliamentary committee has said that tightening restrictions for highly skilled immigrant workers is illegal and unfair and could mean thousands might be deported. Some 50,000 immigrants could be affecte...
By Sonja Pace London 07 August 2007 British police officers block a public footpath leading to a farm outside Normandy, England, where a nsecond outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease was was discovered Tuesday, 7 Aug. 2007 Foot and mouth disease has spr...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 18 July 2007 Militants in northwestern Pakistan have ambushed a security convoy and killed at least 17 soldiers - less than a day after a suicide bomber killed 16 people in Islamabad. Despite the spreading unrest, Pakistan'...
By Ron Corben Bangkok 26 January 2007 Health experts are warning that infectious diseases in Burma are growing beyond the government's ability to control them, and are spreading beyond the country's borders. Ron Corben reports for VOA from Bangkok, w...
VOA,标准英语,suicide attack,Africa,By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 16 January 2006 A suspected suicide bomb blast Monday evening killed at least 20 people and injured more than 30 others in an Afghan border town. It was the third suicide at...
SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Diseases Spread by Mosquitos By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VO...
By Carrie Giardino The government of Chad is calling for international assistance to fight a cholera outbreak in the country. The World Health Organization says it is concerned that the disease could...