By June Simms 2010-1-3 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The World Health Organization is using a new combination of drugs to treat human African trypanosomiasis disease, also known as sleeping sickness. The drugs nifurtimox an eflo...

By Mario Ritter 2009-12-24 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. (MUSIC) There is a place where Christmas lives all year long. It is called Bronner's CHRISTmas Wonderland in Frankenmuth, Michigan. The family-owned business calls itself th...

By Mario Ritter 2009-12-10 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Dubai's recent debt problems have brought attention to the growth of Islamic finance. A government-owned group of companies, Dubai World, has been seeking to restructure twe...

By Mario Ritter 2009-12-3 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. In recent years, a shining city grew in the desert of Dubai on -- and even off -- the Gulf coast. An island shaped like a palm tree was built for hotels, homes and entertainm...

By Mario Ritter 2009-11-26 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This year, Junior Achievement marks its ninetieth anniversary of educating young people about business and economics. The nonprofit organization is the largest of its kind....

By VOA 2009-11-5 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. America's economy has started to grow again. Now what about jobs? The government says productivity jumped in July, August and September. That meant companies produced more with fewer...

By Mario Ritter 2009-10-22 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Many people think the search for cleaner energy leads only to renewable resources like sun, wind and water. But it also leads to a fossil fuel. Natural gas is considered the...

By Mario Ritter 2009-10-15 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Economists usually study markets. Now, two Americans have won the Nobel Prize in economics for not studying markets. They will share almost one and a half million dollars fo...

By Mario Ritter 2009-10-1 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last week's meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was the third Group of 20 summit in less than a year. Leaders of the major developed and developing economies discussed ways...

By Mario Ritter 2009-9-24 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Information wants to be free, the saying goes. But the debate over net neutrality could define how free the exchange of information is going to be in the future. Net neutrali...