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VOA News Voices of America: Azad Right, Iranian-American Hip-Hop Artist
My name is Azad Naficy, I go by the name Azad Right. I'm from Los Angeles and I'm a song writer, producer, artist. Azad is actually my real first name. It means freedom in Farsi and it's something my parents didn't have. My father Majid Naficy is a well known poet from the Iranian community. He's also a political activist. Both my parents were exiled before the revolution. They traveled to France, to Turkey, and then finally ended up here. "Right." I always like to write. I didn't like the way w...
VOA News New Rules for Sina Weibo Users in China Take Effect May 28
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report , from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Recent developments in China and India put the issue of Internet censorship back in the news. In China, the country's largest microblogging service announced new policies to restrict what its users can put online. Sina Weibo is a Twitter-like service that lets users publish short messages and pictures. There are about three hundred million Sina Weibo users. The service h...
VOA News What Happens When TB Becomes Untreatable?
This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish In December, doctors in Mumbai, India, reported about a group of patients with what they called "totally drug-resistant" tuberculosis. Indian health officials have been investigating these cases. But there have been reports of untreatable cases of TB in the past. Doctors reported fifteen patients in Iran in two thousand nine and two patients in Italy in two thousand seven. Tu...
VOA News Rice Production Grows, but Not Everywhere
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish A United Nations report predicts that world rice production will be higher this year than last year. The report is from the Food and Agriculture Organization. The FAO says the global rice harvest should be almost two percent higher this year, mainly because of increased production in Asia. Large gains are expected in Bangladesh, Burma, China, India, Pakistan, the Philipp...
VOA News Getting a Firm Grip on Weed Control
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish When is a plant considered a weed? Experts at Penn State University have a simple answer: When its undesirable qualities outweigh its good qualities.Consider the fact that crops generally produce several hundred seeds from each plant. But each weed plant can produce tens or even hundreds of thousands of seeds. And some buried seeds can survive up to 40 years -- or even l...
VOA News 'Passive' Homes Save Energy, Money
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Heating and cooling equipment are the biggest users of energy in American homes. And homes are responsible for about one fourth of the nation's total energy use. But there are surprisingly simple ways to deeply cut energy use, its effect on the environment and its cost. David Peabody and his team at Peabody Architects design passive homes. He says the design of a passive ho...
VOA News How Gold Became the Gold Standard for Trade
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The best example of something is often called the "gold standard." It sets the standard against which other things are measured. In economics, the term describes how major trading nations once used gold to set currency values and exchange rates. Many nations continued to use the gold standard until the last century. In the United States, people could exchange paper money f...
VOA News Rio+20 Brings Attention to Sustainable Development
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report , from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Leaders and officials from more than 100 nations attended the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. More than 40,000 activists and political and business leaders were also there. The three-day conference in June marked the twentieth anniversary of the first UN Earth Summit, also held in Rio. That conference helped build support f...
VOA News Conflicts Keep Millions of Children Out of School
This is the VOA Special English Education Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Conflicts around the world are keeping tens of millions of young people from going to school. Many have physical or emotional injuries that make it hard or even impossible for them to learn. Later this year UNESCO will release its 2012 "Education for All Global Monitoring Report." UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The yearly pu...
VOA News Does Physical Activity Lead to Higher Grades?
Recently we told you about a finding that more years of school could help students get higher scores on intelligence tests. That was the finding of a study of teenage males in Norway. Now, other research shows that physical activity may help students do better in their classes. The research comes as educators in some countries are reducing time for activities like physical education. They are using the time instead for academic subjects like math and reading. Researchers at VU University Medical...
VOA News In the Garden: Growing Onions
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Onions come in different sizes, shapes, colors and flavors, from mild and sweet to hot and strong. A full-grown onion plant has roots, bulbs and leaves. The leaves are long, thin and hollow. They stand straight up and thicken at the bottom to form a bulb. Onions are biennials; their life cycle is two years long. But they are usually picked during their first year before f...
VOA News Finding the Right Match With Online Dating
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Ten or 15 years ago, online dating was too new to be socially acceptable. Now, many people search for a partner online. Online dating is different from traditional dating where two people learn about each other in person. With online dating, people learn a lot about a possible partner before even meeting them. We spoke with Mario, who had recently moved to the city of Balt...
VOA News With Physical Activity, No Need to Be an Olympian
This is the VOA Special English Health Report , fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Watching the Olympics probably made some people feel a little guilty about not exercising. The truth is, if physical inactivity were a sport, a lot of us could give a gold-medal performance. To mark the London Olympics, the Lancet, a British medical journal, published a series of papers about the problem of inactivity. Public health experts say physical inactivity is the worl...
VOA News Burma Places Hopes for Development in Foreign Investment
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Burma is in a good position to make big gains in Asia's fast-growing markets. But development must include all of society and be sustainable for Burma to reach its goals. That is what the Asian Development Bank said in a recent report.Cyn-Young Park is an economist with the bank. She says Burma's economic position is strengthened by its natural resources, such as oil, gas a...
VOA News Pets Bring Smiles (and Wags) to Retirement Home
From http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Pat Wells brings her dog to visit people living at the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Washington, DC. PAT WELLS: "After 9/11, I wanted to do something to give back." At first, she went alone. Then, she learned about the healing effect that animals have on people. So she started bringing her dog Rikka. PAT WELLS: "We saw one lady that hadn't come out of her room for two weeks because she had a stroke. But when we walked i...
VOA News New Rules on US Summer Jobs for Foreign Students
This is the VOA Special English Education Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish More than one hundred thousand international students will spend this summer working and traveling in the United States. They are participating in the Summer Work Travel program through the State Department. They receive J-1 exchange visitor visas. The idea is for students to work for up to three months and earn enough money to then spend a month traveling before they retur...
VOA News Pressure in Europe Builds for Banking Reform
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Pressure for financial reform has been building in Europe. In June, the financial services company Moody's Investors Service reduced Spain's credit rating. The rating was cut from A3 to baa3. That means that Moody's officials believe the credit risk of Spanish debt has moved from very low to moderate. The company said it acted because Spain is borrowing about one hundred t...
VOA News Rethinking 'Good' Cholesterol; PSA Test Debate
This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish A study has raised questions about a widely held belief involving cholesterol. The belief is that high levels of so-called good cholesterol in the blood can reduce the risk of a heart attack. The medical name for "good" cholesterol is high-density lipoprotein, or HDL. Doctors commonly believe it reduces the risk of heart attack by removing fatty deposits that can block the fl...
VOA News Uneven Signs of Growth in the Transport Industry
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report , fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish A look at some industries in the United States shows that the economic recovery is uneven. And growth seems to be slowing down. We spoke with experts in the transportation industry, which is easily affected by economic changes. Economists say trucks carry nearly 70 percent of the freight, or goods, transported in the United States. The American Trucking Association represe...
VOA News Groups Warn of Health Needs in Burma
This is the VOA Special English Health Reportfrom http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish In the past year, Burma has opened its political system and reached cease-fire agreements with some ethnic militias. The government has also eased media restrictions. But many aid groups say their jobs have not gotten any easier.Health workers are warning about the spread of a form of drug-resistant malaria. The malaria is resistant to treatment with artemisinin. It was first s...
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