02 August 2010 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Dye can bring a little color to life. Most clothing is colored with dyes. Modern, manufactured dyes can be costly. Natural dyes from plant and animal products have been used since anc...

25 July 2010 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders is a documentary by movie director Mark Hopkins. It tells the story of four doctors and their volunteer work in Liberia and the D...

19 July 2010 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Food that has come in contact with floodwaters can sicken anyone who eats it. Water from floods may contain animal and human waste. It can also contain other pollutants like chemicals f...

11 July 2010 In January 2007, in a village in Kenya, a Kenyan public health officer demonstrates how to spray a mixture of insecticides and water to prevent mosquitoes from entering houses during an outbreak of Rift Valley Fever This is the VOA Speci...

04 July 2010 Manute Bol speaks in March 2006 at a rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as part of the Sudan Freedom Walk, a march from New York to Washington This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Manute Bol played ten years in the Natio...

27 June 2010 Nearly 700 women have taken part in the BeadforLife program launched in Uganda by three Americans in 2004 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, as the old saying goes. But some women ar...

...

13 June 201 A study by The Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center finds nearly 83 percent of suspected human trafficking incidents involve the sex trade. This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Each year since two thousand one, the Americ...

06 June 2010 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The health care industry needs more nurses. All areas of the world face a nursing shortage. But the shortage is most severe in developing countries. Many of their nurses leave. They mov...

30 May 2010 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. World No Tobacco Day is celebrated each thirty-first of May. The observance is meant to bring attention to the growing use of tobacco and its deadly effects. The World Health Assembly es...