A stock trader at the New York Stock Exchange watches President Obama on TV as he speaks to the nation about the debt agreement. This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week President Obama signed a bill raising the nations borrowing l...
Entrepreneur Nadiem Makarim started Go-Jek, a motorcycle taxi service, which recently won a United States State Department-supported competition and has already received commitments from investors. his is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Ind...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. A reputation -- what people think of you, good or bad -- is built one message at a time. The difference today is that people can get their messages out to lots of other people at lightning speed throu...
A man browses a book as other people walk by at a book fair in Madrid, Spain This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Spain is struggling with a recession. More than one in five Spaniards are out of work. Unemployment is the highest of the s...
From the left, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Speaker John Boehner share a smile with President Obama at the White House Thursday. This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Anyone who has ever borrowed mon...
DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week on our show, we have a new album from guitarist Pat Metheny ... And we tell you what some universities are doing to become more environmentally frien...
A worker in the operation to clean up an estimated 1,000 barrels of oil that spilled from an Exxon Mobil pipeline along the Yellowstone River in Montana This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last Friday night, an oil pipeline broke under...
Riot police and demonstrators clash Tuesday during protests against austerity measures in Athens This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Greece has approved a plan to raise taxes, cut spending and sell government-owned assets. This clears t...
Demonstrators gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, June 21, 2011, to protest the court's Wal-Mart sex discrimination class action lawsuit decision This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. In the American legal system, peo...
Apple chief Steve Jobs came out of his medical leave on June 6 to announce new products at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco This is the VOA Special English Economic Report. Apple's new version of its desktop operating system...
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