11.   The company is opening new centres in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong this year.

12.   A Buddhist study centre was opened in Moscow this year, and three Tibetan lamas teach in the Russian capital.

13.   A similar information centre was opened in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius last year.

14.   Venice is proposing that advice centres be opened for prositutes and hopes that in return, the prostitutes will obey hygiene standards and behave in an orderly way.

15.   Most of the refugees have gone to stay with relatives in safer zones, while reception centres have been opened for the rest.

16.   Shenzhen authorities recently opened several centres for addicts, the daily said.

17.   The Brothers of Charity, an organisation linked to Mother Teresa of Calcutta, have opened a centre for the homeless.