51.   His trip comes at a time when Pretoria is facing pressure to cut diplomatic relations with Taipei and set up formal ties with Beijing.

52.   His trip comes one month after the two countries signed an agreement for future cooperation in areas ranging from agriculture and tourism to the environment.

53.   His trip comes seven months before the first summit between India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN.

54.   His trip comes shortly after a visit by U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry.

55.   It still remains unclear if the trip will come off.

56.   Some say the trip comes at an inopportune time.

57.   That trip comes just weeks before he visits Cuba, where Christmas was a holiday for the first time in nearly three decades.

58.   The latest trip comes as Cuba bolsters relations with old and new political and economic allies in the Arab world and Asia.

59.   The much-publicized trip comes in tune with the will of the Jordanian street.

60.   The royal trip came at a critical stage in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations on an Israeli troop pullback in the West Bank town of Hebron.