I'm Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Development Report.This Friday, the World Cup opens in Germany. Teams from thirty-two countries will compete in sixty-four games. The champion of the world's most popular sport will be decided in the World Cup final on July ninth in Berlin. Sports are i...
I'm Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Development Report.State Department Human Trafficking report for 2006The State Department says twelve nations are failing to do enough to fight the modern-day slave trade. The department last week released its "Trafficking in Persons Report" for two tho...
I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Development Report.This week, we report on a new warning about the worldwide problem of counterfeit medicines. Scientists warn of a growing industry that is producing illegal copies of the anti-malaria drug artesunate. They say these counterfeits are spre...
I'm Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Development Report.A new report says an increase in development aid has improved health and education levels in some of the world's poorest countries. But the United Nations report says poverty rates in these countries are not improving overall. Developme...
This is Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Development Report.The decision by investor Warren Buffett to give away most of his wealth has raised the hopes of public health officials especially. The biggest gift will go to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. More than sixty percent of its gi...
I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Development Report.The United States Food and Drug Administration has approved a new AIDS treatment for poor countries. The medicine combines three drugs commonly used to suppress H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS. The new product contains the active ing...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.The world has more than six thousand million people. Almost half are under the age of twenty-five. This year's World Population Day on July eleventh dealt with the subject of young people and the problems many face. Poverty, crime, barriers to educa...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Personal computers can spend a lot of time doing nothing. But scientists keep finding reasons for computers connected to the Internet to stay busy. And maybe even help the world. A boy suffering from severe malaria in SudanNow researchers at the Sw...
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. They are ferrous metals, non-ferrous metals and pre...
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 cause tuberculosis. Most times, the infection remains inactive. But each year about eight million people develop active cases of TB, usually i...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.The sixteenth international AIDS conference opened on Sunday in Toronto, Canada. More than twenty-four thousand delegates from one hundred thirty-two countries are attending the six-day conference. They include scientists, health care providers, act...
I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report.Millions of people around the world cook their food over a smoky fire every day. It is often difficult to find wood for the fire. People who do not have wood must spend large amounts of money on cooking fuel. However, there is a much eas...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Sometimes a small loan is a big deal. Microcredit has helped many poor people who want to develop self-employment projects into businesses. And it has helped small businesses grow so people can rise out of poverty. Guatemalan woman sells chickens af...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Atlanta is a sister city to Brussels, Belgium, and Lagos, Nigeria.Sister Cities International is an organization that brings together communities from different areas and different cultures. Sister-city relationships can help communities learn from ...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.The World Bank has just rated countries on how friendly they are to business. And the biggest news was the progress in Africa. Two African countries, Ghana and Tanzania, are listed this year among the top ten in business reforms. For the last two ye...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.The International Campaign to Ban Landmines says mine-clearing efforts made more progress last year than ever before. But the group says it is concerned about future progress because international support decreased for the first time. It says the Eu...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.I.M.F. Chief Rodrigo de Rato speaking at opening meeting in SingaporeDeveloping countries were the main subject last week at yearly meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Finance ministers met for two days in Singapore. Members ...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.A drying corn stalk in one of many farms in Adinefas in southern Eritrea (2004 file photo)As many as twenty countries will be the first to receive assistance from a new effort to improve African agriculture. The Gates and Rockefeller foundations in ...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Family in north eastern KenyaOne of the world's largest aid groups is calling for changes in the way the world reacts to emergencies in Africa. CARE International says emergency aid is growing, yet more than one hundred twenty million Africans still...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Seventy percent of the world's hungry live in rural areasOctober sixteenth is World Food Day. This day is also the anniversary of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The U.N. agency leads international efforts to defeat world hunge...
