This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English Program IN THE NEWS.Earlier this week, the European Union and China agreed on someimportant trade issues. China reached a similar agreement with theUnited States last week. These agreements have cleared the way forChina to join the World Trade Organiza...
This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program IN THE NEWS.Earlier this week, the United States Federal Reserve Boardannounced another cut in the amount banks pay to borrow money for ashort term. The Federal Reserve Board is a part of America's centralbank.The United States Congress establi...
This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program IN THE NEWS.In November, a Washington D-C judge found the MicrosoftCorporation guilty of misusing its power to control the market forcomputer programs. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson announced hisfindings after months of trial. He said Microsoft...
16 Jul 2001, 21:10 UTCThis is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS.The American media is closely following the case of a missingyoung woman. Chandra Levy disappeared in Washington, D-C, two monthsago. New information about the investigation of her disappearance isreported by ...
20 Jul 2001, 18:52 UTCThis is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS.The International Olympic Committee this week chose a doctor fromBelgium as its president. Jacques Rogge (RAWG) will serve at leasteight years. He replaced Juan Antonio Samaranch of Spain who servedas presiden...
31 Jul 2001, 13:48 UTCThis is Bob Doughtywith the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS.Last week, the heads of government of the Group of Eight held athree-day meeting in Genoa, Italy. The members are the leadingindustrial nations --the United States, Japan, Germany, France,Britain, Italy, Canad...
This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program, In The News.America's Federal Bureau of Investigation has a new director. Heis a former Marine who served with honors in the Vietnam War. OnThursday the Senate confirmed President Bush's choice of RobertMueller to lead the F-B-I.Mister Mueller...
This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program IN THE NEWS.Earlier this summer, a young woman in Baltimore, Maryland died asa result of taking part in a medical study.The study was designed to learn how people with healthy lungs andpeople who have the breathing problem, asthma, react to par...
This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program IN THE NEWS.Last week, President Bush approved limited federal governmentsupport of research on special human cells. The research involvesstem cells taken from fertilized human eggs called embryos. Manygroups disagree with the President's decis...
This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program IN THE NEWS.Wednesday, one of America's most powerful Senators announced hisplans to retire when his term ends in Two-Thousand-Three. JesseHelms has served in the United States Senate for almost thirtyyears. He is a Republican from North Caroli...
This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS.American budget experts say the federal government's budgetsurplus will be gone soon. Taxes paid by Americans had createdthousands of millions of dollars more than the federal governmentneeded. However, the budget surplus now is fo...
This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS.The General Assembly of the United Nations will open itsfifty-sixth meeting on Tuesday. Representatives of theone-hundred-eighty-nine member countries will attend the yearlymeeting at U-N headquarters in New York City. The meeting ...
This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS.Few people escaped from seeing or hearing about the terroristattacks in the United States Tuesday morning. Two hijacked airplanesstruck the World Trade Center in New York City. A short time later,another hijacked plane hit the head...
This is the VOA SpecialEnglish program, IN THE NEWS.The economic effects of the terrorist attacks in the UnitedStates last week are spreading across the country and the world. Theattacks in New York City and Washington D.C. have hurt manybusinesses, especially the airline industry and financial mark...
Listen to this Special English program (MP3)This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English Program IN THE NEWS.Afghanistan is one of the world's least developed countries. Ithas been the hiding place of suspected terrorist leader, Osama binLaden.About twenty-seven-million people live in the south A...
This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program IN THE NEWS.Reagan National Airport near Washington, D-C, re-opened Thursdaywith a limited number of flights. It was the last major Americanairport to re-open after the September Eleventh terrorist attacks inthe United States. President Bush an...
This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS.Earlier this week, former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge becamedirector of a new Office of Homeland Security. President Bushcreated this cabinet-level office to strengthen preparations anddefenses against terrorism. This follows t...
This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program IN THE NEWS.The United States is attempting to cut the supply of money forterrorist groups. Congress has approved measures expanding thegovernment's power to halt the flow of money to Osama bin Laden andhis al Qa'eda organization. They are the ...
This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS.On Thursday, three huge American Air Force transport planes tookoff from Ramstein Air Base in Germany. Each plane carried largepaper boxes packed with small yellow containers of food. Severalhours later, the planes dropped the food...
This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS.United States officials called on the public Friday for more helpin finding whoever is responsible for sending anthrax in the mailsystem. They said they had hoped a government offer of one-milliondollars would have produced more in...
