21.   In the eastern port city of Vladivostok, prices for meat, sugar, macaroni and baby food have roughly doubled in recent days.

22.   In the eastern port city of Fajardo, fire stations and a hospital were without telephone service.

23.   In the eastern port city of Vladivostok, several thousand defense workers, doctors and others assailed the Kremlin and the regional authorities for failing to pay workers.

24.   It will fly to the eastern port city of Benghazi twice a week.

25.   Labor leaders said the first of a series of protest marches was being planned for Friday in the eastern port city of Durban.

26.   Kohl leaves Beijing Wednesday for Qingdao, the eastern port city on the Shandong peninsula that was a German colonial concession before the end of World War I.

27.   Nine people were killed and nine others seriously injured Saturday in a four-car pileup on a highway near the eastern port city of Durban, police said.

28.   Russian police defused a powerful bomb placed outside an apartment building in eastern port city of Vladivostok, officials said Friday.

29.   Six fishermen were carried out to sea on an ice floe near the eastern port city of Vladivostok, a report said Tuesday.

30.   Sun got back to his home in the eastern port city of Qingdao on Friday, it added.