These trade disputes between China and Britain resulted in China being forced to open more of its ports to trade with western countries.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

It tells about the exchange of goods and people between China and western countries.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

Western countries have not faced such high debt levels in sixty years.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

India is Asia's third largest economy, and it was less affected by the global financial crisis compared to Western countries.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

But he says their efforts have not met with success, because audiences in India and Western countries are very different.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

She says poor women there frequently are duped by people they trust into going to Western countries by promises of legitimate work.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

Polio is no longer a concern in Western countries because of mass inoculations starting in the 1950s.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

Many Western countries initially hailed the election as a victory for the democratic process.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

Later,he told reporters that the debate in Western countries regarding engagement in Afghanistan should be reason for concern for both the current and future Afghan governments.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

Heavily-decorated military types from Western countries mingled with Arab sheikhs, while aircraft roared overhead.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

Kites was the first big-budget effort by the Hindi film industry to make a movie which would appeal to mainstream audiences in India and in Western countries.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

It is also a huge hit with Indians staying in Western countries.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

For his first trip abroad with an international arrest warrant on his head, President Omar al-Bashir chose another country that has long maintained a defiant posture towards western countries.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

Energy has become a major concern in several Western countries, after a dispute between Ukraine and Russia over prices led to major natural gas shortages in Europe earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Of the 183 countries voting, Myanmar's ambassador,Than Swe, said if western countries are truly concerned about human rights in his country or any other they should adopt a cooperative approach, instead of a resolution that he called "out of step with the times we live in."

VOA: standard.2009.11.20

But the emergency meeting showed growing divisions between western European countries and newer members of the European Union.

VOA: special.2009.03.06

Those estimates put the country behind western Europe as well as countries like Albania, Chile and Tunisia.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

The disease is found in more than one hundred countries in Africa,Asia, the western Pacific Ocean, the Middle East and Central and South America.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

NATO first brought together the countries of Western Europe with Canada and the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

"Vaccination,which we tend to take for granted in countries like the United States or in Western Europe, in fact a lot of us don't even know which diseases we've been vaccinated against.

VOA: special.2010.03.29

The United States and other Western Hemisphere countries have refused to recognize the Honduran interim government.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

He has criticized what he sees as the excessive American penchant for foreign military intervention and over-ambitious efforts to re-make other countries as western-style democracies.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

The number of visits from Western European countries is expected to remain stagnant.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

Krishnan says bribery by western companies can be disastrous to developing countries.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

We need to get better at launching ideas." The challenge is convincing the people in member countries, particularly in Western Europe, that what NATO does is important for their future.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11