Facebook and Its Big Stock Offering This is the VOA Special English Economics Report Facebook says it aims to raise five billion dollars through its first public sale of stock. That would be one of the biggest initial public offerings ever. And it would be much bigger than Google’s first public stock sale in two […]

Websites Cut Service to Protest US Antipiracy Bills This is the VOA Special English Economics Report On January eighteenth, Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, blacked out its English language website for twenty four hours. The move was part of an organized protest against a proposed United States law to fight illegal copying of intellectual property on […]

Obama Appoints Financial Protection Chief This is the VOA Special English Economics Report In early January, President Obama appointed Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This new government agency says it has already made home loans and credit card agreements easier for Americans to understand. But the Obama administration said the […]

‘Sexting’ Study Finds Low Rate Among Young This is the VOA Special English Technology Report A new study shows that “sexting” is not as common among young people as earlier findings suggested. Researchers at the University of New Hampshire interviewed more than one thousand five hundred Internet users between the ages of ten and seventeen. […]

Public Debt, Protests Made Economic News in 2011 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report Today we look back at some of the top stories of twenty-eleven. In Europe, the debt crisis that started in two thousand ten in Greece and Ireland spread to other countries. Portugal needed a financial rescue, and Italy needed […]

    ‘Property Ladder’ Helps Poor Gain Land Rights This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report Less than a third of people in developing countries own or have any official right to the land they live on. Development experts say gaining land rights is important for reducing poverty and increasing economic growth and food […]

  Olympus’ Troubles: What Would Peter Drucker Have Said? This is the VOA Special English Economics Report In December, the Japanese electronics company Olympus made a public apology. It said company officials hid over one billion dollars in losses going back to the nineteen nineties. Olympus said it was investigating and considering legal action against […]

A Room Where Nurses Learn How Not to Get Hurt This is the VOA Special English Technology Report Nurses spend their lives helping other people recover from injuries and illnesses. Yet nurses suffer a surprising number of injuries and illnesses themselves because of their work. In fact, the United States Department of Labor says nursing […]

  India on Way to Topping US in Internet Users This is the VOA Special English Technology Report India could pass the United States in the number of Internet users in less than two years. A new report says India reached one hundred twelve million users in September. India is the third largest Internet market […]

A Soccer Ball That Gives You Energy – Really This is the VOA Special English Technology Report Have you ever heard the expression “a ball of energy”? People often use the term to describe very active children. But today we tell about an invention called the sOccket, that is a real ball of energy. A […]