Rungsri says, Mr.Thaksin was a corrupt leader who bought the support of local people with cheap health care and low-interest village loans.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

Now,it is relying on China's cheap labor and the emergence of a consumer culture to help claw the world out of the financial crisis.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Anything less than that is trying to fight a war of necessity on the cheap,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

The shutdown is bad news for the recession-hit country partly because it will lose a source of cheap electricity and be forced to import more expensive energy.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

Some members of Congress say cheap Chinese imports carry a stiff price.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

They say when people learn that the prostitute in a brothel may be an unwilling victim of sexual exploitation or the cheap jeans they buy in a store are produced by people working some of these forms of contemporary slavery may dry up.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21