31.   It controls barely five percent territory of Afghanistan, including northeastern Badakshan province and small pockets in several other northern provinces.

32.   Led by ousted President Burhanuddin Rabbani and former Defense Minister Ahmed Shah Massood, the opposition now controls northeastern Badakhshan province and small pockets in other northern provinces.

33.   Ma was promoted last year to deputy director of sports in northeastern Liaoning province.

34.   Niphon Wongtrangarn, president of the Rice Millers Association of Thailand, said he has heard frequent complaints from farmers in the five northeastern provinces about thefts.

35.   On Sunday, the government declared a national emergency as flooding swept through five northeastern provinces.

36.   On Sunday, they held a symbolic march of five kilometres within the northeastern province.

37.   Police in the poor northeastern province said the con men convinced the villagers that foreigners would pay exorbitant prices for their land.

38.   Police in this northeastern province had been monitoring suspected traffickers they believed had hidden a shipment of hashish in a country cottage.

39.   Rabbani accused authorities here of allowing the Taliban to attack opposition bases in northeastern Badakhshan province from Pakistan territory.

40.   Qin plays a woman from a chilly northeastern province in China who uses a three-month visa to work as a prostitute in Hong Kong.