Then,when the food crisis hit, the cost of foreign rice shot up.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

Iron ore production in the three months hit 32.45 million metric tons, up from 29.4 million tons a year earlier.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

Stewart also teams up with Mary J.Blige on The Stylistics' hit "You Make Me Feel Brand New."

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

And the economy has been hit hard by the fall in the price of diamonds which make up one-third of its gross domestic product.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

including the album's debut hit, "Giddy On Up." "It was the first song that I had written for the Shakin' side of the album and it inspired the rest of those Shakin' songs."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18