1.   Election observers from the United States and the Commonwealth, a loose alliance of former British colonies and English speaking countries, are monitoring the elections.

2.   It is distributed in every Spanish speaking country in Latin America, as well as Spain, via cable, satellite-delivered cable and broadcast television.

3.   Television serials starring Nasr are highly popular not only in Egypt but also in other Arabic speaking countries where local stations buy them from the Egyptian network.

4.   The virus also spreads through the instant messaging program ICQ and Internet chat tools, which are not very popular in Chinese speaking countries.

5.   Today, there are more Shakespeare productions to choose from in Japan than any other non-English speaking country.

6.   The new move by non-English speaking countries to join may also be the result of a belief that Commonwealth technical assistance is superior to that available to non-Commonwealth countries.