1.   Maoist rebels ambushed a police patrol in a remote village in Nepal on Wednesday, killing eight policemen.

2.   Maoist rebels attacked a mountainous village Sunday night, killing at least seven people and prompting the government to prepare to declare a state of emergency, officials said.

3.   Maoist rebels have little popular support in predominantly Muslim Bangladesh.

4.   Maoist rebels abducted nine rival Communist activists and shot and killed seven of them in a western Bangladesh village, police said Friday.

5.   Maoist rebels attacked a police post in eastern India on Saturday, killing four policemen and losing three of their men, officials said.

6.   Maoist rebels killed a high-ranking police official and injured a constable in an ambush in the remote hills of midwest Nepal, a government minister said Thursday.

7.   Maoist rebels killed one policeman and injured six others in an ambush in western Nepal, a newspaper reported Friday.

8.   Maoist rebels set fire to two schools in the capital city Friday, but no one was injured, the Defense Ministry said.

9.   Maoist rebels, who dropped their demand for a socialist republic and abolition of the monarchy, said Tuesday that Nepal must at least have a new constitution.

10.   Maoist rebels bombed the village homes of a top police official and a former military commander, news reports said Sunday.