The report says poaching and illegal horn trade has increased in South Africa even with new measures against it.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

Google has invested in a new company that wants to put up a system of satellites over Africa.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

Representative Loretta Sanchez from California noted that Mexico has now deployed forty-five thousand troops -- around the same number as the United States has in Afghanistan.

VOA: special.2009.03.14

Foreign language study has increased in the United States.

VOA: special.2011.03.09

Though school enrollment has increased in recent years, experts say improved access to education must go hand-in-hand with improved quality.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

But Gorce believes the debate should far longer and more in-depth than what the government has in mind.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

Hyun says social instability has increased in North Korea, so leader Kim Jong-il needs to continue to reinforce his domestic power base.

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

And while international aid to combat terrorism in Yemen has increased in recent months, humanitarian agencies say they are running out of money.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

They noted that the African Union has in the past approved an important convention, only to see it lie dormant for lack of ratification.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

"We're probably,it looks now, like we'll continue to bump along maybe even have some bad months and unemployment is not going to recover as it has in some past recessions."

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

In the last decade, enrollment has increased and the gender gap in schools has closed in many regions, but UNICEF's Executive Director, Anthony Lake,says there is still much work to be done.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

North Korea,as it has in the past, has reacted to the joint exercise with strong threats -- saying they may lead to a "sacred war" in which Pyongyang would be compelled to use its nuclear weapons.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

"I think,in very general terms, in the last year or two, that the strident public criticism and denunciation rom the outside has also been a factor and has in my view has been something of a mistake,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

It has been in the news over the past months during a disputed takeover negotiation with the American company Kraft Foods.

VOA: special.2010.02.17