11.   After a delay due to bad weather, China launched a Philippine telecommunications satellite early Wednesday from its space center in Xichang in southwestern Sichuan province.

12.   After a mistart due to bad weather, China launched a Philippine telecommunications satellite early Wednesday from its space center in Xichang, southwestern Sichuan province.

13.   After working overnight to clear a landslide that covered a large section of rail, authorities restored normal train service in the southwestern Cholla province early Sunday.

14.   All the tests were conducted underground in the Chagai hills of southwestern Baluchistan province, and did not release any radioactivity into the atmosphere, he said.

15.   Another occurred on a train carrying oil from Beijing to southwestern Sichuan province, it said.

16.   And in the southwestern Upper Silesia province another person was killed and two others injured by a tree brought down by gales.

17.   As a preventative measure, the government has decided to establish an institute for earthquake disaster control in seismically active southwestern Yunnan province, Xinhua said.

18.   Authorities in southwestern Guizhou province have arrested four Chinese poets known for their liberal views, a human rights group said Sunday.

19.   Both sides are targeting and raiding villages in southwestern Bahr el Ghazal province, the World Food Program said.

20.   China has opened its third air link from the mainland to Macao, connecting the Portuguese colony to Chongqing in southwestern Sichuan province, the Xinhua news agency said.