41.   On Thursday he will fly to the southeastern port and industrial city of Chittagong for a brief visit before returning home, officials said.

42.   Police and intelligence sources said most weapons were smuggled into Bangladesh through the southeastern port city of Chittagong.

43.   Police launched a manhunt Thursday for armed robbers who shot dead a Chinese national during an abortive burglary in this Bangladesh southeastern port city, officials said.

44.   Schools, shops and businesses were shut and vehicles, except for pedicabs, stayed off the streets here and in the southeastern port city of Chittagong.

45.   Strike activists barricaded roads and rail tracks, disrupting transport between this southeastern port city and the capital Dhaka, local officials said.

46.   The army was seen moving in convoys in the capital Dhaka, the southeastern port city of Chittagong, eastern Comilla and the nearby districts of Akhaura and Brahmanbaria.

47.   The aircraft carrier Foch, anti-aircraft frigate Cassard and the tanker vessel Meuse are to leave this southeastern French port Tuesday.

48.   The committee organised a march by several thousand people from the southeastern port city of Chittagong and several other districts to Dhaka.