Winners of Our 50th Anniversary Contest

To celebrate our 50th anniversary, we chose ten of you to receive an iPod, Special English T-shirt and Word Book. Here are some winners:

Baigal Tumur-Ochir, center, with Marissa Maurer, public affairs officer at the American Embassy in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and B. Tamir, country representative for the International Broadcasting Bureau.

Hernando Henao with Bridget Gersten, press attache at the American Embassy in Bogota, Colombia.

Haileselassie Tesfay with Julie McClanahan, public affairs officer at the American Embassy in Asmara, Eritrea.

Sathaporn Suwatthanawit with Neal Lavon, International Broadcasting Bureau regional marketing director in Bangkok, Thailand.

Sixty other people received 50th anniversary Special English T-shirts, book bags and Word Books, including Phan Thi My Hao from Khanh Hoa, Vietnam.

Luis L.L. Sevilla of the Philippines, a VOA listener since 1967 and a winner of the Special English 50th anniversary T-shirt, listening to his Eton E5 receiver.