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News For Kids

News For Kids brings you easy stories in English, with Chinese translations to help students and second language learners here in Taiwan! Stories are written and recorded by ICRT correspondents, and uploaded every weekday morning.

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5:10

Dog Smells Gas, Saves Owner

News For Kids ·

2024/03/25

Dog Smells Gas, Saves Owner A dog in the USA saved the lives of his owner and other people. How? He went outside his owner's house. He dug and dug the ground. The dog dug for hours and hours in one place. He made a big hole! 美國有一隻狗救了牠的主人跟其他人的性命。怎麼做到的呢?牠跑到屋外，一直在同一個地方挖洞。 His owner thought that was strange. Her dog didn't dig big holes. Something was wrong! So she checked the hole with a special machine. 牠的主人覺得很奇怪，她的狗平常不會這樣挖洞。她感覺事情不對勁，於是用特殊儀器偵測洞口。 The machine showed a lot of dangerous gas there! What

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5:09

Teenager Becomes Lawyer

News For Kids ·

2024/03/24

Teenager Becomes Lawyer Last year, a teenager became famous. Why? He became the youngest lawyer in California. He was seventeen years old! 去年有一位青少年爆紅了，因為他成為加州最年輕的律師，他才十七歲! Lawyers help people with problems about laws. Laws say what we can and cannot do. Becoming a lawyer isn't easy. There are a lot of laws to study! 律師幫人處理法律問題。要成為一名律師很不容易，要讀很多法律方面的知識。 This lawyer says he isn't smarter than other teenagers. But from when he was a child, he studied a lot. Studying was important in his family. He had

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5:17

Helping Kids Sleep Better

News For Kids ·

2024/03/21

Helping Kids Sleep BetterSleep is important. People need comfortable beds to sleep well. But some people don't have beds. They don't sleep well. 睡眠很重要。人們需要舒服的床才能睡得好。 Two or three percent of kids in the USA don't have beds. Are you shocked? 美國有百分之二到百分之三的兒童沒有床，是不是讓人嚇一跳! One man in the USA was very shocked. Sleep helps kids do well in school. He wanted to help these kids sleep well. First, he built a bed for one kid. Then he asked a good friend to help him. They built more beds for more

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5:12

The Tail of a Whale Tells All

News For Kids ·

2024/03/20

The Tail of a Whale Tells All Whales are big, beautiful animals. Some of them are as long as three buses! 鯨魚是龐大又美麗的動物，有一些鯨魚跟三輛公車一樣長。 Many people want to see whales. Some of us go on boats to watch them. But nobody knows where and when we can see them. And many times, we see the tail or a very small part. 很多人會坐船賞鯨，但是沒有人知道在哪裡或是什麼時候能見到鯨魚。很多時候只能看到尾巴或一小部分。 We try to take pictures. But whales don't stop moving! It's hard to take pictures! But they let us feel a little closer to the whales we see

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5:12

Telling Stories Again and Again and Again

News For Kids ·

2024/03/19

Telling Stories Again and Again and Again Narrator: Everyone has a favorite story. Some people love The Three Little Pigs … Big Bad Wolf: Little pig … I'll blow your house down!!! Little Pig: Oh no! Ahhhh! Narrator: … Some people love the Chinese story about the Monkey King. 大家都有喜歡的故事。有一些人喜歡三隻小豬，也有人喜歡西遊記。 Other people love Cinderella … Prince Charming: Whose shoe is this? Narrator: … Snow White … Evil Witch: Yessss! Eat the apple! Narrator: … or Humpty Dumpty. Humpty Dumpty: I'm an egg, and

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5:09

Gachapon's Words from Sounds

News For Kids ·

2024/03/18

Gachapon's Words from Sounds Gacha gacha! That's fun to say! The sound of the crank on a gachapon machine is called gacha gacha! Gachapon machines are full of small toys. You put money in, you twist the crank, and a plastic pod falls onto the tray. The toy is in the pod! 扭蛋機裡有很多小玩具，只要投幣，轉一下旋轉鈕。一顆塑膠扭蛋就會掉出來，裡面有個玩具。 Gachapon toys are part of a set. There are anime sets, manga sets, wacky cartoon sets, and more. Most people aren't happy with one toy. They want the whole

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5:17

Sunshine Kettle

News For Kids ·

2024/03/17

Sunshine Kettle It's spring! The sun is shining. It makes flowers bloom. It makes the weather warmer. Electricity makes TVs and lights work. Fuel makes planes and cars move. What makes the sun shine? 電視跟電燈靠電力運作，飛機跟汽車則依賴燃油推動。那太陽靠著什麼發光呢? The sun is made of many very small things called atoms. These atoms like to bounce around very fast. Sometimes, they hit each other hard and stick together! When this happens, the atoms become one bigger thing! 太陽由很小的原子組成。這些原子會互相碰撞融合，成為更大的東西。 Lots of energy comes

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5:10

The Mystery Cleaner in the Workshop

News For Kids ·

2024/03/14

The Mystery Cleaner in the WorkshopKid: I wish … I wish someone would clean my room! Narrator: Some kids dream of never needing to clean their room again. Can this dream come true? 有一些小孩夢想永遠不用清理房間，這夢想有可能實現嗎? Well, a man in Wales is living this dream. He has a workshop. It's a place where he makes or fixes things. His workshop has many small things in it: nuts, bolts, nails, and more. 有一個住在威爾斯的人就活在這種夢想裡! 他有一間工作室，裡面有很多小東西，像是螺帽、螺栓、釘子等等。 He puts the small things here, there, and everywhere. But

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5:19

Cats Are Okay to Have Again in Singapore

News For Kids ·

2024/03/13

Cats Are Okay to Have Again in SingaporeCats are great! They have cute meows and quiet purrs. They're small. They can stay indoors 24 hours a day. Cats are good pets! 貓咪不論喵喵叫或是發出呼嚕聲都很可愛，又可以24小時都待在室內。 Lots of people like having cats. But in Singapore, having cats was a problem for many people. These people live in government apartments. Singapore's government makes these apartments. About 80% of Singaporeans live in them. 很多人喜歡養貓，但是養貓在新加坡，可能會帶給很多人麻煩。這些人住在政府興建的社會住宅。新加坡有百分之80的人住社會住宅裡。 But there was

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5:15

Very Big Goldfish in Lakes Worry Scientists

News For Kids ·

2024/03/12

Very Big Goldfish in Lakes Worry ScientistsGoldfish are sooooo cute! People see them and want them! Goldfish are good pets. They're small. They can live in a small fishbowl. They're easy to take care of. 金魚是很好養的寵物，牠們小小的，可以養在小魚缸裡。 But goldfish aren't always small. They can get very big. Now fishermen are finding big goldfish in the Great Lakes in the USA and Canada. 但是金魚也可以變得很大隻，漁民位於在加拿大和美國的五大湖找到大金魚。 These fish are forty centimeters long! *gasp* They're as big as American footballs! Can you

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5:10

The TreeHugging World Championships

News For Kids ·

2024/03/11

The TreeHugging World ChampionshipsThere's a sport for everyone! If you're fast, you can run. If you're strong, you can lift weights. If you're creative and love nature, you can hug a tree! 如果你速度夠快，可以去賽跑。力氣夠大，可以去舉重。現在有個適合大家的運動，如果你很有創意又熱愛大自然，你可以去抱樹。 Finland is a country in northern Europe. It's full of trees. More than 70% of Finland is forest! Every year, people from everywhere go to a forest there. They take part in … the TreeHugging World

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5:13

Check-Ins at the Seahorse Hotel

News For Kids ·

2024/03/10

Check-Ins at the Seahorse HotelA special fish called a seahorse lives in the ocean. Its head looks like a horse's head. But it's much smaller than a horse! 住在海裡的海馬，頭都看起來像馬，但比馬小非常多。 Seahorses live under rocks and inside corals. But sometimes boats bump into their homes. Sometimes big storms blow their homes away! Then hungry ocean animals can find them. 海馬住在石頭底下或珊瑚礁中。但有時候船隻會撞到牠們的家，暴風雨也會把家吹走，其他飢餓的海洋動物就很容易找到牠們。 An aquarium is a zoo for fish. In Australia, an aquarium and a group of scientists both

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5:14

Company Thanks Dead Pests

News For Kids ·

2024/03/07

Company Thanks Dead Pests **Voice: *Ewww, gross! *gasp** What did I do?! I’M SORRY, COCKROACH!!! Narrator: Most people aren't sad about killing these big brown bugs! Cockroaches are pests. Mosquitoes, flies, and other bugs are pests too. Pests carry lots of germs and diseases. Pests can make you very sick. 蟑螂、蚊子跟蒼蠅等等都是害蟲。牠們身上有很多細菌跟病毒讓人生病。 Pesticides are special sprays, gels, and smells that kill pests. Big companies have their own bugs for testing. They want to make sure their pesticides kill

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5:14

A Day for the World's Readers

News For Kids ·

2024/03/06

K*News for Kids 文字檔 (國小) ________________________________ Scientists found a new kind of giant worm. They were thirty centimeters long! They swam in the ocean more than five hundred million years ago. Many ocean animals were small then. These giant worms ate lots and lots of them! 科學家找到一種新的巨大蠕蟲。牠們長30公分，生活在5億多年前的大海，當時的海生動物都很小，這些巨大蠕蟲掠食其他動物。 But today isn't World Worm Day. It's World Book Day! It's a day for bookworms! What are bookworms? Are they worms that eat books? No! Bookworms are people who

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5:12

A Fight About Pineapple Pizza in Italy

News For Kids ·

2024/03/05

A Fight About Pineapple Pizza in Italy Something's in the oven. Let's guess what it is. It's round. The bottom is bread. On top, there's cheese, olive oil, basil… 烤箱裡是什麼? 我們來猜猜看，圓的，下面是麵包，有起司、橄欖油跟羅勒。 It's a pizza! What!? There are a lot of pineapple slices on the pizza too!? But there's no tomato sauce or ham! This isn't a Hawaiian pizza. It's a new kind of pineapple pizza! 居然還有很多的鳳梨，但是沒有番茄醬跟火腿。這不是夏威夷披薩，這是新的口味。 Pizza has a long history in Naples, the pizza city of Italy. There are even food laws

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5:18

Leftovers at the Zoo

News For Kids ·

2024/03/04

Christmas Leftovers at the Zoo There's exciting news at the zoo! Guess what happened after Christmas! The holiday fun didn't end! In Germany, the Berlin Zoo had a special treat for their animals. The treat was… Christmas trees! 聖誕節過後，德國柏林動物園有特別的禮物要給園區的動物，那就是聖誕樹! The elephants stepped on the trees. Then they pulled off the tree branches with their long trunks. They enjoyed munching on the branches. They ate their trees quickly. 大象會踏在樹幹上，用牠們長長的象鼻把樹枝扯下來，吃得津津有味。 The bison used the trees for fluffy

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5:21

Stolen and Found Bikes

News For Kids ·

2024/03/03

Stolen and Found Bikes In a city in Iceland, many people love cycling. But something bad was happening. Some people were stealing bikes! This worried bicycle owners. Some people stopped using their bikes. 冰島有個城市，居民都愛騎單車，但是單車容易失竊，一些人就不再騎單車了。 One man loves biking. He wanted more people to love it too. So he was very angry. He looked for the stolen bicycles. They were hard to find. But he didn't give up. 有個人很喜歡騎車，也希望更多人會喜歡。單車被偷走令他很生氣，他會到處找失竊的單車。 Sometimes he found stolen bikes where a group of

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5:09

A Red Panda for Taipei Zoo

News For Kids ·

2024/02/29

A Red Panda for Taipei Zoo Taipei Zoo has a new animal from Japan! He's small. He's a fire-colored ball of fur. He's very cute and fluffy! 台北市動物園迎接日本來的新動物。牠很可愛還有蓬鬆的火紅色的毛。 His name is Mirai. He's a red panda! Mirai is four years old. A four-year-old human is a child, but Mirai is not a child. Red pandas live about ten to twelve years. Mirai is a young adult. He’s here to be a dad! 牠的名字叫未來，是一隻4歲的小熊貓。小熊貓的壽命大約10到12歲。牠還很年輕，來台灣當小熊貓爸爸。 Mirai is full of energy. He's excited to meet you! Fan meetings with

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