VOA常速英语2018--美国支持叙利亚政治转型

U.S. Policy Toward Syria ISIS has lost the vast majority of the territory it once held in Syria, as it has in Iraq. But while Russia may consider the fight in Syria to be over, U.S. Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David S

VOA标准英语2018--美国对伊朗的导弹开发实施制裁

U.S. Imposes Sanctions Over Iran's Missile Development The United States Department of Treasury has imposed sanctions on five entities linked to Iran's ballistic missile program. The announcement was made January 4 as anti-Iranian government demonstr

VOA标准英语2018--Top 5 Songs for Week Ending Jan. 13

Top 5 Songs for Week Ending Jan. 13 We're uncorking the five most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Chart, for the week ending Jan. 13, 2018. We have no big changes for you this week, just a small re-arrangement. Number 5: Imagine Dr

VOA标准英语2018--数字技术或妨碍妇女赋权

Technology Crucial to Women's Empowerment The Administration of President Donald Trump has placed a focus on women's economic opportunities, empowerment and entrepreneurship. That's because even though there is no better way to strengthen the economy

VOA常速英语2018--Al-Qaida Affiliate Terrorist Designations

The Department of State has designated Muhammad al-Ghazali, Abukar Ali Adan, and Wanas al-Faqih as Specially Designated Global Terrorists. These designations impose strict sanctions on foreign individuals determined to have committed, or pose a signi

Meeting Rwanda's Nutritional Needs

U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda Erica J. Barks-Ruggles visited Ruvugizo Village in Kinazi sector in Huye this month to promote U.S. government-funded activities to combat malnutrition. During her visit on December 5th, the Ambassador observed Growth Monito

叙利亚人道主义撤离

Humanitarian Evacuations in Syria The United States welcomes the urgent and long awaited medical evacuations that took place from Eastern Ghouta in Syria between December 27 to the 29th. In a press statement released December 29th, U.S. Department Sp

VOA常速英语2017--马尔代夫急需安全水源

Safe Drinking Water for Maldives The United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, and the Government of Maldives inaugurated a $3.8 million integrated water supply and distribution system recently, providing a safe and reliable water

美国外援机构助力莱索托发展

Lack of inexpensive, reliable energy delivery is one of the chief obstacles to growth and development in sub-Saharan Africa. Nearly seventy percent of people living in the region lack access to electricity, forcing them to spend significant amounts o

VOA常速英语2018--制裁朝鲜官员

Sanctioning North Korea Officials The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, has sanctioned two individuals in response to North Korea's ongoing development of weapons of mass destruction and their means of deliv

VOA标准英语2018--Russia Complicit in Gas Attack in Syria

The United States is intent on stopping chemical weapons attacks and denying impunity to those who use or enable the use of such weapons. On January 22, in Syria, more than 20 civilians, most of them children, were victims of an apparent chlorine gas

离网能源计划让非洲人民用上电

Lack of inexpensive, reliable energy delivery is one of the chief obstacles to growth and development in sub-Saharan Africa. Nearly seventy percent of people living in the region lack access to electricity, forcing them to spend significant amounts o

Peaceful Protests in Iran

The people of Iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt Iranian regime, said President Donald Trump in tweet posted January 2nd. Referring to peaceful protests that began December 28th in the city of Mashhad, President Trump noted the pe

Preserving Cambodia's Cultural Treasures

The U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh announced this month that the Cultural Heritage Center for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State has awarded $350,000 from the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation to

VOA标准英语--U.S. - Kazakh Relations Strong

President Donald Trump recently welcomed Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev to the White House, where he noted that Kazakhstan has made great strides since gaining independence in 1991. In the years since Kazakhstan's independence, the United Stat

VOA标准英语2018--真主党暗中资助毒品交易

Combating Hezbollah Financed Narcotics In January, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the creation of the Hezbollah Financing and Narcoterrorism Team, or HFNT, a group of experienced international narcotics trafficking, terrorism, organize

Countering Iran's Malign Presence in Syria

The United States will maintain a military and diplomatic presence in Syria in order to help achieve a stable, unified and independent Syria, said U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Now Syria remains a source of severe strategic and diplomatic ch

Keeping the Pressure on North Korea

A campaign of maximum pressure is essential to resolving the North Korean nuclear threat through diplomatic means, said Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the Foreign Ministers' Meeting on Security and Stability on the Korean Peninsula. Our nations,

VOA标准英语--Pence on Winds of Change in Middle East

On a recent trip to the Middle East, Vice President Mike Pence visited Egypt, Jordan, and Israel. In his remarks to a special session of the Knesset, Vice President Pence stated that in meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Egyptia

The Iranian Threat

The United States remains vigilant to prevent Iran from gaining any new ground in the Middle East. Speaking to the Israeli Knesset, Vice President Mike Pence said, The United States will continue to work with Israel, and with nations across the world