Archive for February, 2012
Inspections at Apple’s Suppliers in China
Download this story as a PDF This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. A labor group has begun investigating working conditions at the Chinese factories where many Apple products are made. Apple officials ordered the investigation after the New York Times newspaper described poor working conditions at the factories. The Foxconn Technology Group owns [...]
American History: Clinton Wins 1992 Election
Download this story as a PDF STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION – American history in VOA Special English. I’m Steve Ember. This week in our series, we begin the story of Bill Clinton, America’s forty-second president. He led the United States for eight years, from January of nineteen ninety-three to January [...]
Stephen Vincent Benet, 1898-1943: Popular Writer of the Early 1900s, Part Two
SARAH LONG: PEOPLE IN AMERICA — a program in Special English by the Voice of America. Each week at this time, we bring you a story about people who were important in the history of the United States. Today Larry West and Doug Johnson complete the story of writer Stephen Vincent Benet. (MUSIC) LARRY WEST: [...]
