51.   Loosened government controls on every day life and more porous borders allowed drugs to make a return.

52.   Macedonia, where tensions between the Slav majority and ethnic Albanians reached boiling point in recent weeks, sealed its porous border, too.

53.   Many others enter the country illegally at the porous northern overland border with Thailand.

54.   Many others enter the country illegally at the porous northern overland border with Thailand in search of better-paying jobs.

55.   Most of the heroin smuggled through the porous border between the two countries eventually ends up in Europe or the United States, they say.

56.   New Delhi says Islamic militants sometimes use the porous border to cross into Bangladesh, then back again as they carry out attacks in India.

57.   Nopphadol said Cambodian soldiers held up businesses across the porous border in Thailand two or three times a month.

58.   Of those, about half are illegals who sneaked into the country by sea or through the porous mountainous border with Thailand.

59.   Pakistan said Saturday it has deployed additional troops and helicopter gunships along its porous border with Afghanistan to prevent Taliban or al-Qaida fighters from escaping.

60.   Reports of fighting in southern Afghanistan have raised concerns that civilians as well as Taliban fighters may seek to escape by crossing the normally porous border with Pakistan.