On Thursday, health ministers and senior officials from East Asia agreed to step up monitoring and prevention efforts against swine flu.

VOA: standard.2009.05.08

The senior officials meeting Sunday talked about improving trade relations between their Pacific Rim economies by simplifying documentation requirements and procedures.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

Senior officials had said the Obama strategy would be more limited than the approach taken by former-President George W.Bush.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

Earlier in the week, the Afghan government announced it plans to form a major anti-corruption unit for investigating graft among senior officials.

VOA: standard.2009.11.18

and he says he has "paid a heavy price." The Olmert case is one of several recent corruption scandals that have toppled senior officials.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

They included the North's intelligence chief and the senior officials of the North's ruling communist party.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

The heads of the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank were in Berlin Wednesday for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel and other senior officials.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

Secretary Clinton is expected to spend the next several days in Pakistan, meeting with senior officials and community leaders in Islamabad and the country's cultural center,Lahore.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

"Not just in terms of meeting the heads of government every year for a few minutes but in terms of talking 'nuts and bolts' with senior officials,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

U.S.Defense Secretary Robert Gates and other senior officials have repeatedly urged allies to send more troops, and to eliminate restrictions on how their forces can be used.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

The APEC leaders' week started Sunday in Singapore with meetings of senior officials.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

But earlier Wednesday, Pentagon Spokesman Geoff Morrell said senior officials are considering whether a full counterinsurgency campaign, with large numbers of troops and civilians, is the right approach.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

But the secretary also said senior officials are aware that past efforts have failed, and he said it is not clear whether the view in Tehran has changed.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

Many senior officials and media celebrities are doing the same.

VOA: standard.2009.12.02

The survey comes as senior officials from APEC economies met for a second day in Singapore to discuss recovering from the global financial crisis and improving business in the Pacific Rim.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

The president said he met twice with senior officials in the hours after the shootings, and ordered them to conduct "a full review of the sequence of events that led up to the shootings."

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

And he also says the dire assessment of the security situation by General Stanley McChrystal, the new U.S.and NATO commander in Afghanistan, has presented senior officials with an issue they did not expect.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

Both Canberra and Wellington warned the judges from Sri Lanka that if they took the posts in Fiji they would be subject to travel bans imposed on all senior officials in the military administration.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

"It is a very decentralized movement." "It is not hierarchic, so I do not think the arrests or the killings of its senior officials have ever had any impact, any significant impact on the movement."

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

Hamada's comments follow a meeting of Japan's Security Council Friday, at which senior officials voted to approve the use of missile defense technology to destroy any part of the North Korean rocket that looks like it will land on Japan.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

School officials decided to make changes at Ballou after less than sixty percent of the senior class graduated in two thousand six.

VOA: special.2011.06.23

U.S.envoy Stephen Bosworth in Seoul Thursday said he had "very useful" meetings with senior North Korean officials this week.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

Mr.Reinfeldt underscored that the sanctions are primarily travel restrictions and a freeze of foreign assets of senior ZANU-PF officials.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

Senior Pakistani military officials would not comment on the passports, and they have not been independently verified as genuine.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

Mr.Obama,Vice President Joe Biden and senior administration officials have been holding events in several states, promoting the results of the Recovery Act.

VOA: standard.2009.08.05

Senior State Department officials later said North Korea had been invited by Thailand to send an envoy to Phuket but had not responded.

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

Senior Pakistani officials also say security forces in Swat have surrounded Taliban leader Maulana Fazlullah and efforts are being made to capture him.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

The current treaty expired earlier this month, and senior U.S.and Russian officials say they expect to reach a new accord in early January.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Mr.Olmert is one of several senior Israeli officials who have recently been toppled by corruption scandals.

VOA: standard.2009.08.30