Under former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, earlier this decade, many news outlets were intimidated and threatened into submission.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

(No Transcripts:13 seconds) Trade has been growing by 30 percent annually for much of this decade, and now tops $100-billion a year.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

But this decade, as more and more people turned toward television and then the Internet for information, the Digest began to hemorrhage money.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

weather agency reporting that this decade is likely to be the warmest on record and 2009 the fifth warmest year since record keeping began in 1850.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

Dr. William Abraham of Ohio State University "It has been a decade since we have seen a trial this positive."

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

This will provide crucial clues to what caused the crash - India's worst in more than a decade.

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

His remarks come as scientists released new data showing the first decade of this century will likely turn out to be the warmest ever.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

Now there are about 41 million. This year alone China is set to sell about 11 million cars, of cars sold a decade ago.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

Mr.Toure recognized those who had worked on the legislation and assured them that this new code, nearly a decade in the making, was not being abandoned entirely.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

"We have to protect the social gains that we have made in this hemisphere over the past decade,and ensure that the economic recovery of all the countries in the hemisphere does not come at the expense of the poorest and most vulnerable members of our society,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

And today were announcing a commitment over this next decade, which we think of as a decade of vaccines having incredible impact were announcing well spend over $10 billion on vaccines, Despite the amount of the foundations pledge, Gates says its not enough to develop all the vaccines needed in the developing world.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29