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内容介绍：I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report.Aid officials are working to help the youngest victims of theDecember twenty-sixth earthquake and tsunami waves in the IndianOcean.The United Nations Children's Fund estimates that one an... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report.Recycling makes things like paper or glass or metal useful again.It means the resources that went into making them were not wasted.With glass, it is said that for every one thousand kilog... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English DevelopmentReport.Andrew Carnegie became rich in the American steel industry. Buthe spent much of his life giving away his money. One of his maininterests was developing libraries in small towns. And... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report.The world's richest man is giving away more of his money to fightdiseases in the world's poorest countries. The Bill and MelindaGates Foundation recently announced a gift of seven hundred... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report.A few years ago, researchers discovered a simple answer to a bigproblem. They found that the bacteria that causes cholera can beremoved from drinking water with simple cloth filters. Pour... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report.The United States Food and Drug Administration has given earlyapproval to a lower-cost AIDS treatment for developing nations. Themanufacturer is Aspen Pharmacare of South Africa. This is ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：The secretary-general had decided not to take action last summerafter a U.N. investigation. He says he had received legal advicethat the accusations could not be proven. Mister Annan now says thecontinuing dispute had "made the high commissioner's po... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report.A United Nations report says the number of people in the world isexpected to reach six thousand five hundred million this July. Bythe middle of the century, the population could reach mor... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report.Events took place around the world last week to celebrate International Women's Day. The March eighth observance came as thousands of delegates from one hundred thirty countries met at th... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report. Each year, four million babies die within their first month of life. That is more than ten thousand deaths each day, or seven each minute. Yet simple measures could prevent seventy-five ... >>详细内容

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 ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Gwen Outen with 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 a... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with the V.O.A. Special English Development Report.Research scientists have developed an experimental treatment to protect women against cervical cancer. A new study found the treatment kept almost everyone tested safe from infec... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report.Marburg virus has killed more than two hundred people in northern Angola. The rare virus has been deadly in nine out of ten cases. Tests confirmed the virus as Marburg in late March. B... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report.Nutriset is a food company in France that makes all its products for humanitarian aid programs. One of the most popular products for use in emergencies is a sweet spread. It is made wit... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report.The World Bank has announced a new plan to help fight malaria. The international lender says the fight against the disease has been too slow and uneven. The goal is to expand access to a... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Gwen Outen the VOA Special English Development Report.Sunday was Mother's Day in the United States. People are supposed to do something special to honor their mom. But a yearly list of the best and worst places to be a mother and child rates th... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report.The United Nations has made fourteen appeals for aid to Africa so far this year. Yet eight of those appeals have received less than twenty percent of the amount requested. And only one,... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report.Shigeru Ban is called the "paper architect." Mister Ban is an architect in Tokyo known for his designs of temporary shelters made of paper. Many of his designs, such as the "Paper Log H... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report.Angonio Guterres Antonio Guterres, chosen as the new head of the United Nations refugee agency, is a former prime minister of Portugal. Mister Guterres served from nineteen ninety-six to... >>详细内容