11.   Patten said he will return to Hong Kong in autumn as part of an Asian promotional tour for his new book, East and West.

12.   Pope John Paul II arrived in Sri Lanka Friday, his final stop on a four-nation Asian tour.

13.   Perhaps, the most telling development came in the Down Under leg of his last Asian tour.

14.   Pickering left later Wednesday for Tokyo, the second leg of an Asian tour that also will take him to Beijing.

15.   After a brief vacation, Abdullah plans an Asian tour to include Pakistan, China, Japan and South Korea.

16.   Aldonas is visiting the island as part of a two-week Asian tour.

17.   And Albright will stop in London on Saturday on her way home from an Asian tour to set up meetings on Kosovo with British officials.

18.   Arafat arrived in Malaysia from Beijing on Saturday as part of a whirlwind Asian tour and was scheduled to leave for Bangladesh later the same day.

19.   Before that, Hillary Rodham Clinton is to visit Pakistan -- although not Karachi -- as part of an Asian tour.

20.   Before that, Hillary Rodham Clinton is to visit Pakistan -- although not Karachi -- as part of her Asian tour.