For many years, people had dreamed of building a canal across Central America to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

VOA: special.2010.08.19

Violence and displacements of people were especially bad in Sudan,Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

Malaria is also a threat to people living in parts of Asia, Central and South America, the Middle East, and southeastern Europe.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

In Indonesia, about two hundred people in central Java became sick from the virus last month.

VOA: special.2009.04.13

During the Depression, he witnessed people going hungry in the central United States.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

We turned another corner around the central plaza area and the density of people is even greater over here.

VOA: standard.2010.01.14

"People don't realize that President Obama has really intensified the effort to go after al-Qaida central in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2010.01.19

A return to profitable healthy fishing can lead people out of piracy in the central and north regions,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

On Friday several thousand people rallied in central Bangkok calling for an end to the anti-government protests.

VOA: standard.2010.04.03

He says Noordin Top was among the four people killed in the police raid on a militant hideout in Indonesia's Central Java province Thursday.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

In the past three days at least a dozen people have been killed in clashes between the Shabab and a Sufi Islam militia in central Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.03.16

More vigils and tributes - hundreds of people crowded into the Church of Saint Anna in central Warsaw for a special mass for those killed in the crash.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

Braima says the international community must prepare for a mass exodus of refugees from Darfur by pre-positioning aid in Chad, the Central African Republic and areas within Sudan where people are likely to go.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

"Otherwise you have the really problematic bottom line, which is that the Central Intelligence Agency is running a program that is killing significant numbers of people and there is absolutely no accountability in terms of the relevant international laws,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

"One example of what they have done is what they call a Congestion Management Program where everybody driving into central city pays a congestion fee and the idea there is to discourage people from driving, but take public transportation instead."

VOA: standard.2010.07.26