Over the past two decades thousands of Chinese government and state enterprise officials have fanned out throughout Africa for diplomatic recognition, educational and arts programs, FDI and business loans, giant construction projects, and business and trade deals.
In Peru's Huallaga valley over the past two decades the authorities have helped thousands of farmers to replace 81, 000 hectares of coca with alternatives such as coffee, cacao, rubber and oil palm.
Unbelievably, they drew 0-0 at Old Trafford, and despite losing the replay 2-0, the two games earned hundreds of thousands of pounds for the club.
It is no coincidence, she believes, that the fire was set just two days before thousands gathered to commemorate the Selma demonstrations that led to passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Brenda and Robert were two of the thousands of AARP members who worked hard to make this legislation a reality.
Mr Yu and Ms Huang are just two of the thousands of young people trying to navigate China's modern marriage market.
The ceremony followed a 90-minute open-topped parade from Mansion House during which the two buses crawled through thousands of flag-waving fans as crowds built up in a sun-drenched Trafalgar Square.
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By reading the encrypted data off of two cards and testing thousands of potential site codes against both cards until the decoded data displays a predictable interval between the two, he can find the site code and use it to create more card keys with a magnetizing device.
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Connecticut suffered greatly in 2011 from the effects of Tropical Storm Irene and the October snowstorm which left over two feet on the ground and downed thousands of trees that Irene kindly spared.
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Over the course of two weeks they picked, out of the thousands of children awaiting treatment, 200 between 3 months and 18 years old.
Along with the debt from the two cards, Barker faces thousands of dollars in student loans after graduating.
"During the World War II, thousands of aircraft carried two pigeons in case they the plane was downed so they could send messages, " he said.
The worst damage occurred in Sichuan, which has experienced thousands of aftershocks over the past two weeks, but Sunday's -- which the U.S. Geological Survey measured at a magnitude-6.0 -- was the strongest since a magnitude-5.8 tremor shook the region a day after the initial quake.
Authorities are examining whether Donaghy made calls to affect the point spread in games on which he or associates had wagered thousands of dollars over the past two seasons, according to a law enforcement official.
The new energy development is "almost a spider web coming down to the forest, " said Nels Johnson of the Pennsylvania chapter of The Nature Conservancy, which estimates the state could see thousands of miles of new pipelines over the next two decades.
Strikes at the mine started two weeks ago when thousands of rock drillers demanded higher wages.
Although the Philippines has escaped the worst of the deadly Sars respiratory virus, with only 12 cases and two deaths, thousands of Filipinos work in some of the hardest hit locations such as Hong Kong and Singapore.
Threatening text messages sent in bulk - inexpensive in India - were the main vehicle of the insidious rumours that have swirled around in the city for the past two days, driving panic into the hearts of the tens of thousands of people from the north-eastern region living there.
After the DSM-III included MPD in 1980, thousands of spurious cases emerged in the next two decades, and special psychiatric clinics arose to treat them.
The explosions occurred about four hours into the race and two hours after the winners had crossed the finish line, but thousands of runners were still on the course.
Peel hopes the two developments will transform the region's economy, creating tens of thousands of jobs over some 30 years.
Among the pro-immigration rallies held yesterday, two in Los Angeles drew hundreds of thousands of people to the streets.
Earlier this week Home Secretary Theresa May said the UK Border Agency would be split in two following revelations that hundreds of thousands of people were let into the country without appropriate checks.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has targeted Bank of America, the biggest U.S. bank by assets, in a new probe that questions the validity of potentially thousands of mortgage securities and their associated foreclosures, two people familiar with the matter said.
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The Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust said more than 160 birds had died under the conditions and thousands of fish had been washed up on beaches in the past two months.
Then, with Mr. Zehetbauer acting as general contractor and Mr. Wardlaw in charge of product research, the two built the houses and interior cabinetry themselves, putting in what they estimate was thousands of hours.
It would inflame the Middle East and make tensions rise everywhere, including the two places where the U.S. has a huge stake and tens of thousands of troops -- Afghanistan and Iraq -- and it would put the moderate Arabs on the defense.
More than two weeks after the storm had passed, thousands were still in the dark.
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Thousands of sites remain from the two centuries that separated the industrial revolution from de-industrialisation at the end of the 20th century: abandoned coalmines and steelmills, empty textiles factories and town gas works.
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