2013-05-21 Plans for Chemical Plants Raise Questions in Southwest China
Welcome to As It Is, the daily magazine show from VOA Learning English. I’m Mario Ritter. Today, we look at plans by some large companies to improve conditions for factory…
2013-05-14 Marking China’s Wenchuan Earthquake
Welcome to As It Is, the daily magazine from VOA Learning English. I’m Mario Ritter. Today, we look back five years to a disastrous earthquake in southwest China. “The wall…
2013-04-30 China Responds to a Major Earthquake, Art for Prosthetics and the Appeal of Superheroes
Welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English. I’m Mario Ritter. A deadly earthquake has again struck China’s Sichuan province. The quake was almost as powerful as the one…
2020-01-16 WHO Concerned about Possible New Coronavirus in China
Chinese officials and the World Health Organization (WHO) are trying to contain an outbreak of pneumonia in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. Health experts suspect that the pneumonia cases…
2020-01-06 China Has Painkiller Addicts, But No One Is Counting Them
In 2013, doctors expected Wu Yi to live only a few more years. He was only 26 years old at the time. Cancer was destroying his body. After six months…
2015-09-09 China Debates Egg-Freezing Ban for Single Women
Modern science has done a lot to help adults who were once unable to produce children. But a fertility research group notes that many countries have passed laws to limit…