As officials assess the damage, Chief Fiu John Saelua says people of the village are optimistic, despite their losses.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

Rungsri says, Mr.Thaksin was a corrupt leader who bought the support of local people with cheap health care and low-interest village loans.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

The boat,which departed Friday from a village near the Somali port of Bosasso, was carrying 44 people.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

President Medvedev arrived in capital city of Makhachkala as two people were killed when an explosion ripped their car apart in a Dagestani village.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Ten people in this village died and most were members of this parish.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

VOA's Bart Childs is in Port-au-Prince: "There is a thought that if people return to a simpler life, a farming life,a village life, life will be better for them,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

But as you said, if you start seeing people in your village, and even relatives, succumb to addiction, that might again help to make them more receptive to trying to grow these other crops that are a better part of forming a stronger society."

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

In Bou Saifi, a village south of Baghdad, gunmen killed at least 24 people Friday in what authorities say was an attack by al-Qaida members against families of men linked to Awakening Councils, a pro-U.S.Sunni force that helped Iraq fight extremists and regain a measure of relative calm in recent years.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04