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内容介绍：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 m... >>详细内容

内容介绍：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 ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：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-c... >>详细内容

内容介绍：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 th... >>详细内容

内容介绍：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 su... >>详细内容

内容介绍：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... >>详细内容

内容介绍：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 agri... >>详细内容

内容介绍：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 m... >>详细内容

内容介绍：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... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus speaks during a press conference shortly after opening ceremony of Grameen International Conference on Micro-credit in Beijing, October 22, 2006The Nobel Peace Pri... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Today we tell you about the LifeStraw water-purifying device. Then learn about a wood-burning cookstove that scientists hope will reduce the loss of forests in poor countries. The LifeStraw is a thic... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Development Report.President Bill Clinton left office in January of two thousand one. Since then, he has been leading a private foundation active on a number of world issues. These include H.I.V/AIDS, health security a... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Development Report.The United Nations Development Program says the world is facing a water crisis. It says each year, more than two million children die from diseases caused by unclean water. Most of these deaths are f... >>详细内容

内容介绍：China's Margaret Chan smiles after being nominated new World Health Organization WHO Director GeneralThis is the VOA Special English Development Report.The next chief of the World Health Organization wants the performance of the W.H.O. to be judged b... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Development Report.World AIDS Day is December first. The message that the World AIDS Campaign has chosen for the two thousand five through two thousand ten observances is "Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise." The promise is a... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Development Report.On December tenth, nineteen forty-eight, the United Nations approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article nineteen says everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression and t... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Development Report.A research team from Finland, the United States, China and Scotland is hopeful about the future of forests. Six experts in forestry science and economics say forest growth is on the rise in some coun... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Development Report.The Bush administration has announced a new program to support local efforts to control malaria in Africa. Laura Bush said thirty million dollars will go to African and American nongovernmental organ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Right now, the top story in AIDS research involves newly announced findings about adult male circumcision. Two studies in Africa found that circumcised men had half the risk of getting H.I.V. from se... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report.People have always had to find ways to keep food safe to eat.Methods to dry, smoke and salt food were invented thousands of yearsago. The process of canning is much more recent. This stor... >>详细内容