Don: It's not too late! She's still here. Get back over there. Herbert: I can't. Anyway, her interests are completely different from mine. Don: How do you know? Herbert: I talked about baseball ...

The Butterfly Lovers, one of the four major folktales of China exerting global impact, is often known as the "Oriental Romeo and Juliet". It originated in the Eastern Jin Dynasty about 1,600 year...

One day, Tom took the land of a man who had borrowed money. The poor man asked for more time to pay. Please do not destroy me! he said: " You have already taken all my money!" Tom got angry and sta...

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. When you have a question about something, where do you go? For many people the answer is simple. They go online to a search engine like Google or...

In the remote northwest there was a country, which was called the State of Huaxushi, named after a well-known lady. Though it was a country, there is no head of state and everything went naturally. O...

Over the past two to three decades, people in western countries have been getting fatter, and the phenomenon is spreading to some industrializing countries, too, such as China and India. Doctors are ...

Scientists think they are a step closer to a new drug to treat schistosomiasis. More than two hundred million people suffer from this parasitic worm disease. Most live in developing nations. About ten...

Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an economic recovery plan that could signal where U.S. trade policy is headed as the Obama administration works hand-in-hand with a Democratic Part...

Pangu, standing between Heaven and Earth, grew every day. After 18,000 years, Pangu grew to become a giant 90,000 li in height, which is the distance between Heaven and Earth. As he died, his left eye...

Scores of banks across Europe and the United States have been propped up or taken into part state ownership over the last year. Governments have already poured billions of dollars into trying to sav...

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This was the surprise announcement Friday from Oslo, Norway: "The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for two thousand ni...

The U.S. Labor Department reports nearly 670,000 Americans submitted claims for government jobless benefits last week,up more than 10,000 from the previous week and the highest number recorded in more...

Pangu is the creator. There are two legends about him—one,the creation of Heaven and Earth and the other, how he became all creatures on Earth after his death. It’s said that chaos was shaped lik...

I didn't say I liked it. A man bought it for me. You met a man! What is his name? His name is Herbert and he was just being polite. When a man buys a drink for you, he isn't just being polite. ...

Don't waste your time on a man/woman,who isn't willing to waste their time on you. Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to,doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. recently opened an exciting new show called “Recognize! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture.” The exhibit celebrates the importan...

BBC News with David Legg. Five weeks after being sworn in as President, Barack Obama has addressed both houses of Congress calling for politicians on the nation to move together to master the many c...

Professor Walker says straw takes in carbon dioxide as it grows. So it can be seen as having no harmful effects on the environment. He says straw helps the environment in other ways. "The straw bal...

When a member of a poor household becomes sick, the illness can result in financial ruin, says political scientist Gary King at Harvard's School of Public Health. King says just a few years ago, clos...

I love you not because of who you are,but because of who I am when I am with you No man or woman is worth your tears,and the one who is ,won't make you cry. The worst way to miss someone is to b...