A economists say higher food prices will only increase the problems faced by the region's poor, who are highly dependent on rice as a staple food.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's assertion in a Friday news conference in New York that the new facility was not in violation of International Atomic Energy Agency guidelines and would be for energy purposes seemed to only increase the degree of anger on Capitol Hill.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

Experts say the new methods also increase crop production up to five times more than crops that depend on rainfall only.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

Signs of climate change include an increase in rain when there used to be only snow, new plant life,and melting ice sheets.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

They found that the increase took place only in areas with hospitals where new doctors train.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

They found that this ten percent increase only happened in counties with teaching hospitals.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

Not only that,they can help schools increase their ethnic diversity.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

Not fully being part of the Atlantic alliance, he said,only serves to increase its dependence and limit its margin of maneuver.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

U.S.funding for AIDS programs has stayed the same, with only a slight increase of two percent.

VOA: standard.2010.07.17

Jerome Benezech, the director of Farmlink, which is working with local farmers to increase pepper production, says the pepper's unique flavor is thanks to a combination of factors found only in Kampot.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

Saying President Obama has offered Iran every opportunity for constructive diplomatic dialogue on its nuclear program, Senate Democratic Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry said more robust sanctions are in his words the only way to dramatically increase the economic and diplomatic pressure on Iran from the outside and help leverage pressure on the regime from its own population which wants a different relationship with the world.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25