Category: Development Report (发展报道)

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. An environmental project in the American city of Chicago, Illinois, could offer ideas for cities around the world. The project is gaining…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Slums are densely populated areas of housing where people live in poverty and dirty conditions. The United Nations Population Fund estimates that…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A project called the World Community Grid has found a way for computers connected to the Internet to help solve humanitarian problems.…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. In many developing countries, weather reports remain trapped in the capital. National weather services have the information, but no way to get…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Farmers in Africa call the striga plant by the name witchweed. It grows a pleasant looking purple flower. But it attacks many…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Before refrigerators, homes usually had ice boxes. But another way to keep food cool without the need for electricity is to use…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. On Tuesday, the United Nations will open a “food summit” in Rome. Leaders and high-level officials from around the world will meet…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A billion people live without a safe water supply. Two and a half billion, or more than forty percent of all people,…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Saint Mark’s Square in Venice, Italy, is known for its historic buildings and its pigeons. Tourists have long enjoyed feeding the birds.…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Wikis are Web sites designed for cooperative work. Users can easily create or change the content. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. There are new findings about an old method for keeping away insects. Scientists have uncovered the molecular workings of DEET. DEET is…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Whoever thought learning new words could feel socially responsible? A Web site called FreeRice.com is an English vocabulary game. It explains its…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. This Tuesday is Earth Day. On April twenty-second, nineteen seventy, millions of Americans took part in activities to bring attention to the…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Five women were honored last week in Washington for their efforts to increase the economic and political progress of women. Vital Voices,…

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Goldman Sachs Group, the international investment banking company, has launched a new program to provide ten thousand poor women with business education.…