"I'm impressed. They are getting there. They still have a long way to go,". Developer Tony Jape is building a new, modern office and apartment complex and betting that the country will continue to develop.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

With just days to go before all preliminary vote totals are to be released, Afghan President Hamid Karzai's office is applauding the Independent Election Commission "for its efforts in pursuing the process in an impartial and faithful national spirit."

VOA: standard.2009.09.09