Groups like the Asian Development Bank oppose limits on interest rates because of these high business costs.

VOA: special.2010.11.12

These include the World Bank, the World Economic Forum and the Asian and African development banks.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

The Commonwealth Games are the biggest multi-sport event to be staged in India since the Asian games in 1982.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

Randy Schriver, who heads the research group Project 2049, which focuses on issues in the Asian region and the rise of China.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

A fishery in Northwest Illinois has agreed to take in the Asian Carp to process them as fertilizer.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

"So you can probably say that there is not much of a problem of the asset side in the Asian banking system."

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

According to the Ministry of Health, the Asian Tsunami in 2004 swept away or damaged almost two-thirds of health clinics in one Indonesian province.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

Country director Puto Kamayana says the Asian Development Bank is helping build roads, power plants,railways and irrigation systems, like this one in Kampong Thom province.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

"Most of the economies, including Thailand, showed a pick-up in the second quarter GDP, the Asian region was leading the turn around in the global picture,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Tay says the global economic crisis that started in the United States has brought attention to the Asian economies that are expected to drive world growth.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

He is teamed up with Isaak to track and weigh the amount of fish they are bringing in to help the DNR better understand the scale of the Asian Carp problem.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

His comments came at the start of the Asian Financial Forum in Hong Kong, where international delegates and representatives of the International Monetary Fund met to discuss the region's economic future.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

To understand where and how much the invasive species is spreading, Irons and his crew use a method known as electro fishing to stun the Asian Carp so they can be captured and counted.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

"Our aspect of the project is to harvest the Asian Carp before they get to the fish barrier to reduce the numbers so there is less chance of any Asian Carp getting past the barrier."

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

This part of the Illinois River near Morris is several miles southwest of the electronic fish barrier, a critical point along the Illinois waterway system meant to stop the Asian Carp from reaching Lake Michigan.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

Hassan Moinuddin of the Asian Development Bank's Mekong Sub-Region Program says a warmer climate could cut almost seven percent off the region's gross domestic product by the end of this century, by reducing crops or forcing the relocation of communities.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

On a warm summer day, when he usually would not be fishing - and on a part of the Illinois River where commercial fishing is normally illegal - Isaak and his fellow fisherman are casting their nets to drive the Asian Carp out of the water.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

A simple water pump is helping to improve the lives of poor families in several Asian and African countries.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The genome could also help farmers avoid Asian soybean rust disease, a highly destructive fungus spread by the wind.

VOA: special.2010.02.02