1.   The absence of reference to a division of the southern province, therefore, is not altogether surprising.

2.   Why had he been so determined to create a second see of archiepiscopal rank in the southern province in the first place?

3.   At the same time, the governors of the troubled southern provinces of Bahr al-Ghazal and Equatoria were reported to have been replaced.

4.   As fighting raged for a third day, Stepashin warned that Moscow risks losing the unruly southern province to the east of breakaway Chechnya.

5.   Both sides reported unusually heavy bombing in Kosovo, the southern Serb province that is seeking independence.

6.   A small number of special operations soldiers are performing reconnaissance and intelligence missions in southern Nangarhar province, the area surrounding Tora Bora, U.S. officials said.

7.   A weak peso also depressed Mexican bonds, as concerns about a guerilla movement in two poor southern provinces continued to temper prices.

8.   Above all, he believes, a political strategy is needed to stop the fighting in the southern Serbian province.

9.   After traveling only as far as Zunyi, in the southern province Guizhou, Chen was dispatched by the Communist leadership to Shanghai to help lead the underground.

10.   All large cities will be opened to foreign banks, which were previously limited to Shanghai and Shenzhen, the city in southern Guangdong province that borders Hong Kong.