This extra heat can raise temperatures in cities by about one to three degrees Celsius compared to rural areas.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

Most of the early users were young men who worked in cities and wanted to send money home to rural areas.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

Workers in rural areas would have a better way to get training, information and advice from doctors hundreds or even thousands of kilometers away.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

She also thinks the government needs to direct more economic assistance to rural areas.

VOA: special.2010.05.22

But making the vaccine more widely available especially in rural areas has been difficult.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

Poisonous snakebites are common in rural areas of many developing countries with warm climates.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

Poisonous snakebites are common in rural areas of many developing countries with hot climates.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

These are most often found in rural areas in tropical climates.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

Poor people in rural areas often cannot get banking services.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

"People are now seeing that they can actually make a business from supplying this vaccine and getting out to the very rural areas where there is a market for this."

VOA: special.2009.11.03

"People from all walks of life, and particularly from rural areas or marginalized communities, can have access to higher education at the most advanced levels, and our program provides that opportunity."

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Most live in poor rural areas.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

Boehner also says Mr.Obama's energy proposal would especially hurt Americans living in rural areas, and would drive jobs to other countries.

VOA: standard.2009.06.27

These are new concepts for people who may have lived in rural areas or refugee camps all their lives.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

"A lot of women are coming in victims of agents that go out to rural areas and promise them wonderful jobs,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

One of the greatest challenges will be making enough trained teachers and facilities available in state-run schools, especially in rural areas.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Indonesian Search and Rescue Agency spokesman, Gagah Prakoso says infrastructure damage is also hampering efforts to bring aid to some rural areas.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

The girls are very young,he says, so pregnancy and childbirth, often in rural areas, are difficult and risky.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Most vaccines help prevent disease in children,but reaching children in remote rural areas is often a challenge especially in poorer and war-torn countries.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Yet,health clinics can be difficult to get to in rural areas and people are more likely to go to a traditional healer first.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

Experts believe one of the best ways for the rural areas to cope with the new arrivals would be to create jobs boosting food production.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

He said agriculture is not just a sector in Africa, it is a way of life, because the majority of Africans live in rural areas.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

And a large part of it is because I think the rural areas are still culturally closer to the core of our society, and the fabric,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

"Close to 60 percent of our gold consumption happens in rural areas.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

Health care professionals in Kenya are also pushing for what they call a structured donor system that involves regular education campaigns,blood drives, and mobile donor clinics to reach office workers and people living in rural areas.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

Mr.Thaksin,who remains in exile in the face of a two year jail sentence for corruption, maintains support from the northern rural areas as well as among the poor and low income groups due to populist economic policies while in office.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

Rural areas are largely untapped. "So the government needs to work hard to diversify its export commodities, export products, add more value by processing more, let's say agriculture production in the country and thereby create more jobs to help the economy grow faster."

VOA: standard.2010.06.02