Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (HMC, 7267.TO) is recalling about 344,000 Odyssey vans and 68,000 Element sport-utility vehicles from 2007 and 2008 amid consumer complaints that brake pedals felt 'soft' or pedal heights gradually lowered. 本田汽车(Honda Mot...

On Friday a central bank official invited the US to refrain from politicising China's currency policy. On Sunday, closing the annual meeting of lawmakers, Premier Wen did little else, with a series of pointed allusions to the Three Ts dominating the...

15 March 2010 Sweden's Peepoople company is beginning production in Nairobi and expects to start selling the bags in August in Kenya and Bangladesh This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The name sounds funny but the idea is no joke: a p...

Brian Padden | Jakarta 15 March 2010 U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Indonesia and Australia has been postponed a few days. But it is still generating excitement, particularly in Indonesia. Many Indonesians see the U.S. president as a native s...

今年1月3日吻瘫美国纽瓦克机场的中国留 学生江海松因擅闯机场禁区被判罪。 Haisong Jiang, who slipped past a security checkpoint on Jan. 3, causing a shutdown of Newark Airport, pleaded guilty to defiant trespass. 那时我和...

11 March 2010 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Laws in the United States and other countries treat a corporation like a person. We talked last week about how this idea developed a long time ago. In the United States, the Constitution...

David Gollust | State Department 11 March 2010 First lady Michelle Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton present the 2010 International Women of Courage Award to Jestina Mukoko of Zimbabwe, 10 March 2010 Secretary of State Hillary Clint...

Sean Maroney | Kabul 10 March 2010 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai review the honor guard at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, 10 Mar 2010 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...

Dan Robinson | White House 08 March 2010 President Obama (left) and First Lady Michelle Obama at an event in the White House marking International Women's Day, 8 Mar 2010 In an event at the White House on Monday, President Barack Obama and his wife M...

Scott Stearns | Dakar 09 March 2010 Nigeria's acting president has appointed a new National Security Advisor following the deaths of hundreds of people in the latest round of ethnic and religious violence near the city of Jos. Acting President Goodlu...