Hundreds of people rioted in Menga, a village on the border with Myanmar, in a dispute between rubber farmers and the management of the factory to which they sold their produce.
As a result of poverty and lack of education at village level, some people thought, he said, that they could divorce a spouse on the authority of the village council or even by rejecting their wife and sending her back to her family's home.
Famed for their trademark macho outfits, including a policeman's uniform, a red Indian, and a construction worker, Village People - named in tribute to the New York's Greenwich Village gay district - launched themselves on the disco world in the late 1970s.
But I lived in a pit village and I knew many of the people that were on strike and I knew the way these people had to go out at night to gather waste coal just to keep their houses warm over the winter of '84-'85 and the impact that had on people.
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An Israeli airstrike hit a mosque in the northern Gaza village of Beit Lahiya on Saturday evening, killing 13 people and wounding 60, according to Palestinian medical sources.
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Dozens of people attended a drop-in session at Pangbourne Village Hall on Saturday, where they could talk to Reading West MP Alok Sharma and West Berkshire district councillor Pamela Bale.
Hamez was killed along with his KLA brother Adem during an infamous attack by Serbian forces on a village in 1998 which left nearly 60 people dead, including many women and children.
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People react to austerity by falling back on their family and village networks.
The people of Kivalina, Alaska are losing the ice their village is built on at an alarming rate, requiring urgent and expensive relocation.
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"The main objective was to find an alternative income for the local community in the surrounding village and forest, and also relieve the pressure on the forest of people cutting timber, " says project manager Amiri Saidi.
The Eastern region has a long list of schemes which, for decades, businesses, motorists and local residents have been longing for: people were talking about a by-pass for the village of Elveden on the A11 back in the 1970s and there was talk of completely dualling the A47 in Norfolk in a 1988 government white paper.
People were always arriving or departing from the village, moving in or moving on.
On Saturday, a truck bomb killed 150 people in a village in Salaheddin province, about 100 miles north of Baghdad.
One of the village's two dikes gave way on Monday night, killing at least five people.
Syria's state-run news agency said 25 people were killed in a chemical attack on the Khan al-Assad village in northern Aleppo province.
People in Stoke-on-Trent raised funds to help reconstruct the village of Lidice near Prague after it was destroyed on 10 June 1942.
On April 13th, more than 1, 000 people from Longwang Temple Village, which is in Zhuanghe city, were in front of the city government office.
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In the aftermath of the Heydrich assassination, the Nazis went on a rampage, burning an entire village (Lidice) and detaining thousands of people.
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Losing the school has been hard on the village's small downtown, where businesses have lost out with fewer people going to school to pick up and drop off children.
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If the chief and the Council cannot reach unanimous decision on an important issue, a village meeting is called and the issue put before the people, who will debate it until they reach a consensus.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday visited a Volga village where all 341 homes were destroyed by flames, leaving 500 people homeless.
On one end of the Roaring Fork Valley lie Aspen and Snowmass Village, where many affluent people live and vacation, and where housing prices are some of the highest in the United States.
The men from this village of roughly 9, 000 people got together with other nearby communities to decide that their women would not vote on May 11 either.
At least 43 people died and 25 were reported injured when torrents of water rushed down a mountain on to Andap village in the valley, local news sources reported.
About 250km (150 miles) to the north, in neighbouring Shanxi province, in Pingdong, a much poorer village, 250 people live along battered dirt roads, and try to grow wheat, corn, soyabeans and winter melon on the dry, rocky mountain land.
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