71.   Demonstrators from the southwestern provincial capital Opole fear losing business and government funds if their province is absorbed into a larger region with another city as the capital.

72.   Disaster officials said many areas in the northern part of Luzon were still experiencing heavy rains late Friday and at least two provinces are without electricity.

73.   Ethnic Albanians who had fled the violence crossed from Macedonia and Albania, flooding in despite warnings from international agencies that the southern Serb province was still perilous.

74.   Ethnic Albanian refugees who had fled the violence began to return to Kosovo en masse despite warnings from international agencies that the province was still perilous.

75.   Far-flung Papua province is also home to a rebellion.

76.   Five Sri Lankan provinces are to go to the polls next month to elect local councils.

77.   Following the pullout of Yugoslav army and Serbian police forces last month, the war-battered province has been without local governments, courts and police.

78.   Fujian province has been a staging ground for a three-month military exercise partly aimed at intimidating Taiwan.

79.   He denied that the province was under Taliban control.

80.   He justified posting soldiers and police in local markets by saying that the province was prone to social unrest and rioting.