South Korean Unification Minister Hyun In-taek told the Reuters news agency Monday, Pyongyang's recent provocations appear to fit a pattern.

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

New numbers from China's customs agency say the country's exports for 2009 were more than $1.2 trillion, slightly ahead of Germany.

VOA: standard.2010.01.11

On Tuesday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported the North fired more short-range missiles off the same coast.

VOA: standard.2009.05.26

The head of the International Red Cross Federation's Tsunami unit, Al Panico,says his agency received nearly $3 billion, from the general public.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

Fauzi,who goes by one name, heads the earthquake and tsunami unit of Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

Egypt's official news agency,MENA, reported Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa said Mr.Obama has inspred a "new spirit" and officials in Egypt also welcomed the June visit.

VOA: standard.2009.05.09

Kaplan's agency is redoubling its efforts to identify obese women early in their pregnancies and to make sure their health care providers treat them as high-risk patients.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

The news agency has pressed the U.S.military to conduct a full investigation.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

The North Korean Central News Agency carried a statement from the country's Naval command,Thursday, accusing South Korea of sending warships into the North's territorial waters at least 10 times this week.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

During her visit to Angola, Clinton witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Angola's petroleum ministry, the US Agency for International Development and the oil firm Chevron to support more diversified agricultural production.

VOA: standard.2009.08.10

U.N.children's agency in Somalia Deputy Representative Hannan Suleiman tells VOA that unlike countries like Yemen that may run out of water entirely in the next two decades, Somalia is thought to have plenty of water underground to sustain people for many generations.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

(Speech) Iran's official Arabic-language al Alam TV is reporting (No Transcripts) The Iranian Student News Agency reported earlier the head of the parliament's national security committee, Alaedin Borujurdi, would put the U.N.draft nuclear deal between Tehran and the West to a vote of his committee after discussing its pros and cons.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

At the same time, a court case has raised questions about the agency's legal powers to regulate broadband service.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

Last week the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer listed the signals from wireless devices as "possibly carcinogenic."

VOA: special.2011.06.06

The American space agency's Dawn spacecraft began circling Vesta, a member of the asteroid belt that orbits the sun.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

A budget proposal by President Obama cancels the American space agencys plans for manned spaceflights to a lunar station.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

Written materials are also being provided to other countries through UNICEF, the United Nations children's and educational agency.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

An industry group, the Financial Services Roundtable, says it supports many of the administration's proposals but not for a consumer protection agency.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

Some of the documents suggest that members of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency are helping insurgent groups in Afghanistan.

VOA: special.2010.07.31