Her birthplace was not far from the Hollywood movie studios where she would someday be a star.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

While that rate is far from ideal, Lo points out that the lower rate will still be a significant improvement for Cambodian families.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

But they said the results will be provisional, and subject to review, an indication the future of the city is far from settled.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Now with widespread allegations of vote-rigging, the British government is having to justify why British service personnel are dying for what appears to be a far from democratic election.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

"In our pandemic work, we were really focusing on the avian influenza, mostly in Asia and Africa, so the assumption that the next pandemic would start overseas, far from the U.S., turned out not to be true."

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

Considering the scale of the challenge faced by South Africa, the organization next year will need to be even better than what the Egyptians have offered thus far, says Sydney Malangu, a photographer from Johannesburg working at the Under-20 World Cup.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

One of the things that a lot of observers have been concerned about is the fact that there could be a change in tactics away from the kind of spectacular and very difficult operations to conduct to operations that could be launched in far greater numbers and might have less individual impact but which in the aggregate could sow a great deal of terror.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05