31.  The three companies already jointly own three plants in the eastern cities of Hangzhou, Quanzhou and Jiaxing.

32.  Transferring textile industry from eastern cities to Xinjiang had shown initial results but optimal production had yet to be reached, he said.

33.  US Airways Express feeds passengers from small eastern cities to larger hubs such as Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.

34.  Yet methamphetamine has yet to pose a problem in New York and most other Eastern cities.

35.  Police alerted by teachers discovered the four bodies Tuesday morning after the children failed to arrive at school in this eastern Dutch city.

36.  Poisonous moonshine killed five people and sent another four to the hospital in this eastern Siberian city on Friday, officials said.

37.  A century ago, most of the European Jews who came to the United States settled in Eastern cities, where they worked as peddlers or in sweatshops.

38.  A group of skinheads attacked and injured three youths attending a Lutheran church convention in this eastern city, police said Friday.

39.  A firefighter-turned-arsonist who set at least eight fires near this eastern city last year was sentenced two two years in prison.

40.  A helicopter crashed near this Russian Far Eastern city, killing one person and injuring four others, a news agency reported Thursday.