This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A better rat trap has led to a better life for the Irula tribe in Tamil Nadu state in southeastern India. The improved design has a 95 percent success rate The Irulas are one of the lowest groups i...
By Alan Silverman Los Angeles 12 December 2007 Novelist Khaled Hosseini's international best-seller set in 1970s Afghanistan and present-day America has been made into a Hollywood studio movie. Alan Silverman spoke with the author and cast members fo...
By Peter Fedynsky Moscov 06 September 2007 Kazakhstan has suspended launches of the Russian Proton rocket at the Baikonur Space Center following a failed liftoff and loss of the payload, a Japanese communications satellite. VOA Moscow Correspondent P...
EXPLORATIONS – Satellite Photos of Mayan Ruins By Paul Thompson Broadcast: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 Paul Thompson VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus with EXPLORATIONS i...
AGRICULTURE REPORT – June 18, 2002: Sunflower Rubber By George Grow This is the VOA Special English AGRICULTURE REPORT. Many farmers grow sunflower plants. The tall plants produce beautiful flowers...