Category: In The News (时事新闻)

I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Two influential thinkers of the twentieth century have died. John Kenneth Galbraith, the economist, died on April twenty-ninth at…

I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Mao Zedong led the revolutionary army that established the People’s Republic of China in nineteen forty-nine. Mao led Communist…

I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, Columbia University in New York announced the winners this year of the Pulitzers. The Pulitzer Prize in…

I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Iran has rejected an appeal from the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency to suspend its uranium enrichment…

I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, Tom DeLay announced he will resign from Congress. The former House majority leader plans to leave by…

I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Immigration was a major subject as President Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox met this week. They were in…

I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The world’s first permanent court for war crimes was established in the Netherlands in two thousand two. Since then…

I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Three years ago, on March nineteenth, President Bush ordered American-led coalition forces to invade Iraq. One goal was to…

I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, the State Department released its “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.” American officials use these yearly reports…

I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. American lawmakers continue to debate the sale of some operations at six ports in the United States to a…

I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. More countries found the h-five-n-one virus in birds this week. Cases of the deadly virus in chickens and turkeys…

I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The drawings that have led to increasing protests by Muslims in recent days first appeared in a Danish newspaper…

I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Bush gave his State of the Union speech to both houses of Congress and the American people Tuesday.…

I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The Islamic group Hamas won seventy-six of the one hundred thirty-two seats in the Palestinian parliament. Hamas defeated the…

I’m Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, the people of Chile elected their first female president — and Africa’s first elected woman president took…