The villagers threw themselves into the ceremonies with gusto.
The organization of the election of villagers committees has been generally improved.
The protesters have mostly been fishermen and villagers living nearby who are bitterly opposed to the project.
After her father's death, she found herself on the ancestral turf adjudicating over marital disputes among local villagers as if they were her serfs.
However, in a place where the villagers rarely visit the doctor, they all thought I was insane for taking seven puppies an hour-and-a-half away to see a vet.
He doesn't like guests, especially journalists, leaves his hut only once a month and avoids people but the villagers still like him because he sells them grapes and other fruits at a rather low price.
The villagers will transplant to another place.
The villagers scramble to replant the uprooted trees, nursing them tenderly back into the ground.
A snow-streaked slag heap looms large in the lives of poor villagers in the Xinjian Coal Miners' Village.
Clashes between villagers and riot police have occasionally broken out in recent years because of disputes over the nearby power plant.
Urging these villagers to make roti in a solar cooker meets the same mix of rational and irrational resistance as telling an Italian that risotto tastes just fine if cooked in the microwave.
The villagers knew about the scandal.
And the villagers claim customary rights. Their families have used the forest for generations.
The fire burns through dozens of homes before frantic villagers are able to put down the blaze.
A new fish landing center in one district is being built on a backwater because the villagers who saw 2,500 of their people die in the tsunami didn't want to "turn their backs on the sea."
The villagers believed the girl was possessed by demons.
Then he bought prepaid phone CARDS and sold them to villagers in pay-as-you-go form.
One recent project found a way to generate electricity in rural villages in Ecuador using parts that could be manufactured and maintained by the villagers.
Within 15 minutes, starving villagers arrive at the carcass.
39children play as villagers gather their belongings together while relocating to make way for the South-North Water Diversion Project in Yunxian county, Hubei province August 29, 2010.
The soldiers dressed like the villagers.
Not every village can boast of having a picture gallery. And it is worth to say that ordinary villagers are usually far from high art.
At sunset, all the villagers huddled (converged) around a big grill.
Most of the villagers survive off tiny plots of cropland.
Broadcasters said villagers on Alishan had crawled down the mountainside to an abandoned police station to request aid by radio.
Many villagers are named Yang.
As well as going after dolphins, villagers not allowed to hunt the minke whales along the coast have turned to hunting (rarer) toothed whales not covered by the IWC's moratorium.
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