1.   Nangahar province includes Tora Bora, the mountainous area where Osama bin Laden was last thought to be.

2.   Provinces involved include Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Yunnan, Gansu, Ningxia, Guizhou, Qinghai, Guangxi, northwest Shanxi and northwest Sichuan.

3.   The other provinces inundated include Jujuy, Santiago del Estero, Catamarca, and Salta.

4.   Gauteng province includes Pretoria and Johannesburg.

5.   Besides South Africa, the church province includes Lesotho, Namibia, and St Helena and Niassa and Lebombo in Mozambique.

6.   Tshabalala-Msimang accused premier Mbhazima Shilowa, whose province includes the capital Pretoria and Johannesburg, of breaching national ANC policy.

7.   The China Daily said cities such as Beijing and provinces including southern Guangdong, eastern Jiangsu and northeastern Heilongjiang had almost completed the required closures.