1.   Already workers have marched to protest job losses and deteriorating benefits in cities across China -- from Shijiazhuang in the north to Zigong in southwestern Sichuan province.

2.   Chinese state television broadcast the launch live from Xichang, in southwestern Sichuan province.

3.   The Saudi hijackers shared geography as well, many hailing from the southwestern provinces of Asir and al-Baha.

4.   Twenty were executed in Kunming, capital of southwestern Yunnan province, after a rally where the condemned were sentenced before thousands of people.

5.   Originally it was believed that only two devices were exploded at a remote test site in the desolate southwestern Baluchistan province.

6.   Pakistan exploded five nuclear devices on Thursday and another one Saturday in the Chagai Hills in remote southwestern Baluchistan province.

7.   Pakistan exploded five nuclear devices on Thursday and two more Saturday in the Chagai Hills in remote southwestern Baluchistan province.

8.   Quetta is the provincial capital of southwestern Baluchistan province which borders Afghanistan.

9.   A small credit cooperative in southwestern Guizhou province was closed for the same reason.

10.   A Pakistan Air Force fighter plane crashed in rugged southwestern Baluchistan province on Sunday.