English News Weekly

(Source: Wikipedia) The G8 - a group of leading economic powers - met this week in Northern Ireland, UK. This week's ENW podcast looks at how the civil-war in Syria has caused big problems between the USA & Russia. Japan has also been urged to modernise its economy - how will PM Abe react? Download this week's episode to find out more! Download MP3

(Source: Flickr) This week ENW looks at an incredible journey made by one Japanese man. Masahito Yoshida, 32, decided his life was boring. So he quit his job...and walked around the world! That is a journey of 40,000 km! It took him 4.5 years to complete! Download this week's episode to find out more! Download MP3

(Source: Flickr) ENW turns to Japan for this week's episode - Ep 101. Concerns grow that PM Abe's LDP-led government might re-open some of the 50 closed Japanese nuclear power plants. ENW Ep 101 looks at the big demonstrations in Tokyo against re-opening any nuclear power stations. But is this really a bad idea? Download ENW Ep 101 now for more information! Download MP3

(Source: Flickr) Special 100th Episode Edition of English News Weekly! This is a very special edition of Hiroshima University's English News Weekly as it celebrates our 100th episode since we first started in April 2011. Usually English News Weekly chooses an interesting, or important news story from the past seven days, but this week we are going to go a little further back in time… To celebrate our centenary episode English News Weekly is going to look at some big news stories from this week in history. We will start with May 27th… English News Weekly 第100回記念特別版 2011年4月に配信を開始しました広島大学のポッドキャスト"English News Weekly"は、今回の配信で100回目を迎えました。これを記念して、今回は特別版をお届けします。 通常の配信では、その１週間の出来事から興味深いニュースや重要なニュースを選んでいますが、今週は少し過去にさかのぼってみましょう。 第100回記念の"English News Weekly"は、過去の歴史の中で、今週１週間に起こったニュースを取り上げます。それでは、まず5月27日から... Download MP3

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(Source: Wikipedia. Chai and Indian Coffee) This week's topic: Drinks War! Tea or Coffee..? Ep 98 looks at an amazing story from India about a fight between coffee drinkers and tea sippers. Download MP3

(Source: Wikipedia) This is a very special edition of English News Weekly as this week we interviewed Senator Brian Taniguchi from Hawaii. Senator Taniguchi very kindly answered 10 questions written by Hiroshima University students about life in the beautiful island-chain of the Hawaiian Islands. Senator Taniguchi is a 3rd Generation Japanese-Hawaiian whose family originally comes from Hiroshima Prefecture. Senator Taniguchi has been an elected official in Hawaii for 33 years. He is a member of the Hawaii-Hawaii Sister-State Organisation as well as representing the district of 11th District on Oahu Island. On behalf of Hiroshima University's English News Weekly Podcast and I would like to express our deep gratitude to Senator Taniguchi for taking time to answer some of our student's questions. 今週はEnglish News Weeklyの特別編として、米国ハワイ州議会のブライアン・タニグチ上院議員(Senator Brian Taniguchi)へのインタビューをお届けします。訪日中のご多忙なスケジュールの中、タニグチ上院議員は、ハワイ諸島の美しい島々での暮らしについて、広島大学の学生が用意した10の質問に答えてくださいました。 タニグチ議員はハワイ生まれで、広島県出身のハワイ日系移民の三世です。氏はオアフ島

(Source: Wikipedia) Fights atop Mount Everest...Angry people in Bangladesh and amazing news curved TV screens! This week's ENW podcast looks at 3 very different, but interesting news stories from around the world in the last few days. Download it now! Download MP3

(Source: Wikipedia) This week's ENW podcast highlights the increasing popularity of cycling in huge, major cities across the world. From New York to Tokyo via Beijing and on to Budapest...more and more people are cycling instead of driving in cars, or travelling on busses & trains. Download MP3

(Source: Wikipedia) Episode 94 of ENW Podcast will look at the terrible bomb explosions at the end of the Boston Marathon. Download MP3

(Source: Wikipedia) This week's ENW - Ep 93 is about the friendliest country in the world! Can you guess which country? Download MP3

(Source: Wikipedia) This week's ENW Podcast looks at 5 Worrying problems from Brazil, Korea, South Africa, USA & Cyprus. Download MP3

(Source: Wikipedia) ENW goes GREEN! -- This week's ENW Podcast is about Earth Hour 2013. Download MP3

(Source: Wikipedia) How much would you pay for a summer holiday? This week's ENW Podcast, Ep 90 - looks at the most expensive holiday in the world! 962 locations for £445,000! (¥64,193,724! $673,324!) Download MP3

(Source: Wikipedia) The number of sharks in the world has decreased hugely in the last 30 years. This week 3 different kinds of sharks have been added to the 'protected list'. Do you agree? Download this week's ENW to find out why. Download MP3

(Source: Wikimedia) This week's ENW Podcast looks at the trend of 'unusual' names for newborn children. Many countries around the world are trying to stop parents from naming their children with 'crazy' names. What do you think? Is '4Real' an OK name..? How about 'Google!' (really)? Download MP3

(Source: Wikimedia) It's movies this week in the ENW Podcast! Ep 87 is going ALL Hollywood as we look at the Oscar Ceremony. Have you seen any of the movies? Download MP3

(Source: Wikimedia) This week's topic is about the big meteor that crashed into northern Russia injuring 1,200 people & causing around 25m euros worth of damage. Download it out! Download MP3

(Source: Wikimedia) Would you like to be working full time at the age of 85? Or would you prefer to be relaxing and enjoying your retirement? This week's ENW Podcast is about one 85 year-old man who has decided he wants to retire from his very busy job. Download MP3

(Source: Wikipedia) 7 hours & 1 minute. This is the title of this week's ENW podcast - Episode 84! What can you do for 7 hours and 1 minute..? Download MP3