21.   He is also hampered by the situation in Kosovo, since many of his party seats were won in the southern province.

22.   It came despite promises on Friday from the Russian foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, that Russian troops would not enter the southern Serb province before NATO did.

23.   It will operate in Ho Chi Minh City and most of the surrounding southern provinces.

24.   Jiujiang Fertilizer Co., a manufacturer of chemical fertilizers in southern Jiangxi province, has been shut down after just six months because of industry over-supply.

25.   Last November, China set up a service company in southern Fujian province to handle cross-Straits shipping.

26.   Local cooking is influenced by Burma, Laos and, to some extent, China, since many of the early settlers were from southern Yunnan province.

27.   Meanwhile, a Chinese health official was quoted as saying that no cases of the bird flu virus have so far been found in the southern Guangdong province.

28.   Meanwhile, violence continued in the southern Serbian province Tuesday.

29.   Milosevic denounced the U.N. mission in the southern Serbian province as shameful and a total fiasco and said it should be ended as soon as possible.

30.   Most of its China stores are in southern Guangdong province.