More recently, Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus discovered new lands while seeking to expand trade with spice-growing areas in Asia.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

These trade disputes between China and Britain resulted in China being forced to open more of its ports to trade with western countries.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

Experts on language say the expression was born more than two hundred fifty years ago, when pirates sailed the seas, attacking and robbing trade ships.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

And the U.S.Congress should approve more funding to Mexico for training, equipment and other initiatives to fight the drug trade.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

They pledged more resources to the IMF to help countries in distress and promised to avoid restrictions on trade.

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

Mr.Wen said trade has soared in modern times, more than tripling between 2004 and last year, when it topped $132 billion.

VOA: standard.2009.11.07

(OMITTED) And with increased salaries, Chinese should purchase more, helping restore parity in trade surpluses on global markets.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

U.S.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday said the foreign ministers also discussed the importance of expanding trade and making it more sustainable and inclusive.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

Brent McClendon, Executive Vice President, he says taking steps to assure legal trade makes good sense for the environment and for business "By doing more trade, you are doing in the forest.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

Bio-trade analyst at the U.N.Conference on Trade and Development Lucas Assuncao says local communities will be more inclined to preserve their flora and fauna, if they can see economic benefits from using their natural resources in a sustainable manner.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

Indications are there will be no agreement on more stimulus packages, general agreement on free trade and against protectionism, agreement on more money for the International Monetary Fund, and there is likely to be some agreement on greater regulation.

VOA: standard.2009.04.02

"This is a time where business community looks for specific concrete moves by the government so that we are able to build confidence and bring confidence back to the system and at the same time we'll be able to help promote more trade and investment,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

It is not clear what it will be able to do to help revive energy talks with Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, During negotiations in the Czech capital,Prague, the three natural-gas producing nations were not convinced by E.U.offers of more trade and stronger transport links in exchange for their participation in a multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline, known as Nabucco.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11