2003-12-08 World Hunger Up, UN Study Says
This is Robert Cohen with the VOA Special English DevelopmentReport. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says worldhunger has…
2003-12-01 World AIDS Day
This is Robert Cohen with the VOA Special English DevelopmentReport. December first is World AIDS Day. The message at events…
2003-11-17 Pfizer Adds to Fight to End Blindness from Trachoma
This is Robert Cohen with the VOA Special English DevelopmentReport. The drug company Pfizer says it will give enough medicine…
2003-11-10 Microcredit Summit Campaign
This is Robert Cohen with the VOA Special English DevelopmentReport. In many developing nations, more than fifty percent of workersare…
2003-11-24 Diabetes in Developing Countries
This is Robert Cohen with the VOA Special English DevelopmentReport. The World Health Organization says it expects two times as…
2003-11-03 Recycling Scrap Metal
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. People have been recycling metals for hundreds of years. Today,re-using metal waste…
2003-10-27 Maternal Death Rates
This is Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English DevelopmentReport. A study finds that one out of sixteen women in…
2003-10-13 Telemarketing
This is Robert Cohen with the Special English Development Report. People who sell goods and services over the telephone are…
2003-10-20 Blindness / World Sight Day
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. An estimated one-hundred-thirty-five million people have lowvision. Forty to forty-five million others…
2003-10-06 UN Treaty Against Organized Crime
This is Bob Cohen with the VOA Special English Development Report. The first treaty to fight organized criminal groups around…
2003-09-29 World Bank Calls for Better Public Services
This is Robert Cohen with the VOA Special English DevelopmentReport. The World Bank says the poor quality of public services…
2003-09-22 Improving Literacy Worldwide
This is Bob Cohen with the VOA Special English DevelopmentReport. Literacy, by its most basicmeaning, is the ability to read…
2003-09-15 Working with Clay
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Clay is found almost everywhere in the world. It is formed by…
2003-09-08 Small-Scale Bridge Building
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Bridges are an important part of transportation systems. Theymake it possible to…
2003-07-07 Doctors Without Borders
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. When a crisis develops in the world, Doctors Without Borders isusually there…