1.   This year it was the waylaying of a southbound train at a station in central Anhui province by a local gang.

2.   Also planned are a car-repair paint works in Wuhan, in central Hubei province, and four industrial gas plants in four different provinces.

3.   An anti-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, was reported to have battled with Taliban forces in a central Afghan province called Uruzgan this week.

4.   A report in the Futures Herald, an official newspaper controlled by the Communist Party in central Henan province also pointed to a rate cut soon.

5.   Chen said the new plant, based near Houma city in central Shanxi province, will make engine blocks and other parts.

6.   Dongfeng Motors Co., a truckmaker based in central Hubei province, saw sales lagging production in the first five months of the year.

7.   He was captured in a firefight in Faisalabad, an industrial city in central Punjab province.

8.   In Bamiyan, the central province where the Taliban blew up giant Buddhas this year, the ethnic Hazara governor, Karim Khalili, is back in power.

9.   Miguel Marrero Sosa, the chief of the Committees in central Villa Clara province, acknowledged nearly as much.

10.   The court in central Hubei province handed down the verdict Wednesday morning.