1.   In December the president personally visited Mexican customs checkpoints along the border to help ensure Mexicans returning home for Christmas were not harassed.

2.   Ion Track and its competitors are now lobbying Congress for funding to get the machines in airports, customs checkpoints, and prisons.

3.   On a barren expanse of desert just north of Chaman, a stream of mostly one-way traffic flowed into Pakistan past a customs checkpoint Sunday.

4.   The authorities said protesters set fire to a customs checkpoint and a police station when the police fired into the air to stop them.

5.   Unmik police intercepted his truck after observing it trying to avoid a customs checkpoint.

6.   For years, the front line north of Vavuniya town has looked like a border, with the rebels issuing travel papers and operating a customs checkpoint.

7.   Four crew from the Panamanian-registered Apus were arrested at a customs checkpoint Thursday in the southern city of Kaohsiung, a police statement said.

8.   Special windows are being set up at all customs checkpoints to help conference delegates bring in needed items.

9.   The Russian police eventually captured a customs checkpoint on the Chechen side of the border, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.

10.   The project will link existing highways between the Penang and Songkhla deep-sea ports, with joint customs checkpoints, the state-run radio said.