Part of the problem in China is that running a big company even a giant such as China Telecom, with its 220m customers still has a lower status than a political job such as governor of a province.
Juan Maria Jauregui, 49, a former governor of a Basque province, was killed by two gunmen as he sat in a cafe in the city of Tolosa.
Someone, perhaps the president, has also thrown a lifeline to the floundering ex-general, Alexander Lebed, currently failing as governor of a Siberian province.
However, the deputy governor of Zabul province said a foreign military aircraft came down there on Saturday.
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Mr Ortega, a former governor of Tucuman province, has been thrust into the limelight by President Menem, who recently installed him as secretary for social development.
Among the investigations that have been blocked are those into Azimi, the bank executive who allegedly bought the car for Salehi, and Ghulam Ghaws Abubaker, a former governor of Kapisa Province, for allegedly colluding with the Taliban and extorting money from contractors.
The governor of impoverished Marib province was stabbed in a clash with anti-government protesters.
Assad Asheq Mustafa, a former Syrian agriculture minister and former governor of Syria's central Hama province, and Walid al-Zoabi, a real estate entrepreneur from Dubai.
However, Javeed Faisal, a spokesman for the governor of Kandahar province, said the coalition patrol hit the bomb in the Maiwand district of the province, the spiritual birthplace of the Taliban.
The governor of South Tyrol, a German-speaking province ceded to Italy after the First World War, said that it was unreasonable to expect his people to celebrate their subjugation to an alien culture.
As governor of Buenos Aires province, Mr Duhalde was a populist.
One of them, Antonio Bussi, stepped down temporarily from his post as governor of Tucuman province earlier this year, after Mr Garzon linked him to a Swiss bank account containing alleged spoils of repression.
But in a written statement to NPR, the governor of Anbar province, Maamoun Sami Rashid, said that the handover had been further postponed due to ongoing negotiations regarding some of the language in the written agreement both sides must sign.
It won an election for governor of Rio Negro province, and an opinion poll gave the Alliance candidate a ten-point lead over his Peronist rival ahead of October's presidential election.
Chavez handily won a third term against popular Miranda province governor Henrique Capriles in October of 2012.
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On Wednesday, a Turkish police officer was killed in "an armed attack on a police car, " according to the office of the governor of the southeastern province of Mardin.
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Last year, a significant number of deputies declined to endorse the promotion of former Shandong province governor Jiang Chunyun to vice-premier.
That protest led the prime minister to sack the chief minister of the province and his cabinet and put Governor Zulfiqar Magsi directly in charge of the region a move that many Shiites thought would help protect their community.
Mr Yabran's downfall owed much to a struggle for control of the ruling Justicialist Party between Mr Menem and Eduardo Duhalde, governor of Buenos Aires province.
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