Uno,zero,cinco,cinco,". Simmons says Cuba's intelligence agency still prefers short wave radios and face-to-face meetings over computers and more advanced technology.

VOA: standard.2009.06.06

Finance ministers of the 24 advanced and developing economies said the funding increase takes effect immediately with the money coming from the agency's 185 member nations.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

Airbus's order tally advanced to 56 on Monday after the Qatar Airways order.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

At a similar gathering last year, members of the so-called G20 set of advanced economies agreed on emergency spending to stem a global crisis brought on by the collapse of U.S.investment bank Lehman Brothers in late 2008.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

China has acknowledged the need to limit its carbon emissions, but argued that greater responsibility falls on advanced industrialized nations like the United States, which produced large quantities of greenhouse gases for decades before China's rise as a global economic power.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26