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At the end of May … we all start to act like villagers.

Mark Lakeman

Most of these villagers are very old and it is distressing to hear of force being used against them.

Rajiv Narayan

Relief has been exchanged for Kashmiri villagers affected by the quake on both sides of the border.

Nazir Ahmed

Any eviction on the current terms would leave the farmers in an extremely vulnerable position with few opportunities to make a living. We urge the government to carry out a fresh consultation. It should ensure the villagers are not left homeless and give them reasonable compensation and alternative farming land close to their new homes.

Rajiv Narayan

There are many villages in China that have this kind of problem with village finances. Villagers are often suspicious of their leaders on money issues.

Guo Feixiong

The problem is that the villagers leave their houses only at the last moment when the waters start flooding in. We really have to persuade them to leave earlier.

Sushil Kumar

A first step in reconstruction is re-drawing maps of the 650 affected villages in the tsunami zone. Teams of Indonesian farmers are working with villagers under guidelines to identify and agree on public and private property lines.

Jonathan Simon

People will be able to actually walk where the villagers walked and explore the mound.

Doris Anderson

A team from the FSL (Forensic Science Laboratory) has visited the site and examined the skeletons for over two hours. The initial inquiry has revealed that the skeletons do belong to men and have indeed been here since a very long time. We need to take them to the laboratory for any further details but as the villagers were not keen to have them removed, we have left it at that for now.

Vijay Kumar

About 98 percent of villagers first come to me when they get sick. They only go to a county hospital when I can't cure their illness.

Ma Wenfang

I think it is reasonable because these villagers are mainly farmers and we need them to bring us to the spot where the footprints are found.

Vincent Chow

There's seven profiles of marijuana smokers: computer programmers, environmental activists, university students, teenagers, villagers in Moravia who now smoke joints instead of drinking plum brandy, reggae music listeners and 80-year-old ladies buying marijuana for their husbands who have Parkinson's and other illnesses.

Martin Titman

At the end of the week the villagers wanted to thank us, so they had a party, the bakery made cakes and the villagers dressed in native costumes and performed traditional dances.

Ann Baker

We'd talk to the villagers and try to find out who was an insurgent and find their cache. In one site, we found over 11 tons of explosives. They would sell it to the insurgents. You're not only fighting the insurgency; you're fighting an economy that's poor.

Capt. Paul Lyon

Medical conditions at the grass roots level is poor and villagers don't know much about the epidemic.

Mao Qun'an

Police were forced to open fire in alarm. In the chaos, three villagers died.

Xinhua News Agency

We have found 29 dead bodies so far. About 9,300 villagers must stay at refugee tents because their houses were destroyed by the flood and landslide.

Edi Susilo

We don't know exactly the scale of the damage. Afghan National Army troops are on the ground helping villagers.

Zahir Azimi