日期：2009-06-15 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The 16th international AIDS conference opened on Sunday in Toronto, Canada. More than 24,000 delegates from one hundred thirty-two countries are attending the 6-day conference. They include scienti... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-15 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The oil company British Petroleum has shut down a pipeline connecting the Prudhoe Bay oil fields in Alaska to the Trans-Alaska pipeline. The Prudhoe Bay field, north of the Arctic Circle, provides 8... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-15 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Many college students in the United States use their summer break to earn money in a temporary job. But more and more are working as summer interns. Some internship programs accept students in high s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-15 VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week -- research into eating fish as a possible way to help save eyesight in older people. VOICE ONE: A study says moderate coffee... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-15 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. As oil prices climb, so does interest in fuels made from agricultural products. Many farmers hopebiofuelslike ethanol and biodiesel will expand their markets. Government support has helped to make... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-15 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The World Health Organization estimates that about one-third of all people are infected with bacteria that causetuberculosis. Most times, the infection remains inactive. But each year about eight m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-15 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Now, our third and final report on foundations, what they are and what they do. In the United States, education gets the most foundation dollars -- about twenty-five percent. Next comes health, then... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-15 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. This week is the sixtieth anniversary of theFulbrightProgram of international educational exchanges. On August first, nineteen forty-six, President Harry Truman signed legislation to create the progr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-15 EXPLORATIONS -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (MUSIC) Today, Harry Monroe and Tony Riggs report about America's second manned space program, Gemini. Two astronauts flew on each flight. Gemini's purpose was to bring the United... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-15 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. American beef is returning to Japan. The Japanese government last week ended a ban in place since January over concerns about mad cow disease. Japanese officials recently inspected thirty-five beef... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-15 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. People have been recycling metals for hundreds of years. Today, re-using metal waste or scrap provides work for many people, especially in developing countries. Three kinds of metals are recycled.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-13 Liu Xiang's parents are under as much pressure as their son as he prepares to defend his Olympic 110 m hurdles crown, the couple said yesterday. We try not to think about the what ifs, the sprinter's father Liu Xuegen said before the couple set off... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-13 Ma Cunming has been counting down to the Olympics for the last year, ever since he discovered he would be performing at the Bird's Nest on the opening night. The 33-year-old villager and 40 neighbors from Ansai county in Shaanxi province will perfor... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-13 When Charles Barkley was asked in 1992 if he knew anything about Angola, the US basketball team's first Olympic opponent, he famously replied: I don't know anything about Angola, but I know they're in trouble. The Dream Team of 1992 in Barcelona kne... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-13 They are proficient in hand-to-hand combat, firefighting, tactical maneuvers and first aid. They speak English fluently and are familiar with international etiquette. But their names and assigned tasks are kept confidential. Posted at the Olympic vi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-13 Riding 16 years of uninterrupted economic growth, Australia continues to capitalize on a string of advantages to consolidate a long and profitable relationship with China. Aside from having strong macroeconomic fundamentals and a beneficial location... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-13 The names of the artists who will lend their voice to the theme song of the Olympic Games opening ceremony are out. World pop-opera star Sarah Brightman and Liu Huan, China's most versatile singer, will regale the audience toward the end of the open... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-13 Tens of thousands bowed their heads at a ceremony in the Japanese city of Hiroshima yesterday, the 63rd anniversary of the world's first atomic attack. A bell tolled at 8:15 a.m. to mark the exact moment when the bomb dubbed Little Boy was dropped o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-13 China is likely to lift its two-decade-old ban on people with HIV/AIDS entering the country some time next year, said a top Chinese health official yesterday in Mexico City. Government agencies, including the Ministry of Health and the General Admin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-13 More than 16,400 Beijing couples have applied to have their marriages registered on the auspicious date of Aug. 8, 2008, the municipal bureau of civil affairs said yesterday. On the same day last year, just 3,390 couples registered their nuptials, i... 阅读全文>>