Voters in Iraq are going to the polls in provincial elections on 20 April.
Britain's InterContinental Hotels, meanwhile, has negotiated licences for two Holiday Inn Express sites in provincial capitals.
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Shiny new buildings even in provincial towns, along with new roads and water projects, signal optimism.
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Golden Dawn is opening more offices in provincial towns to increase support among the unemployed young.
Yet in provincial capitals, it appears to have taken only one or two mayoralties.
But this increasingly bitter affair is not over: fresh battles are likely in provincial legislatures.
Lu said limiting the number of winning bids in provincial tenders should bolster market shares for top companies.
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When posted abroad, it was not to a centre of cold-war espionage, but to Dresden, in provincial East Germany.
In the last 24 hours there have been disturbing reports of widespread looting and rioting in provincial towns, including Sfax.
The shopping malls popular in provincial America and Europe and in the new high-rise cities of Asia are unappealingly uniform.
Something similar applies in provincial Turkey, where the scarf has made it easier for women to be active in public.
The big growth area of recent years has been in young working-class men killing one another in provincial towns and cities.
About half of them travel across Afghanistan to perform in provincial schools.
The controversy was sparked by the failure of a measure that sought to give minorities more of a voice in provincial governments.
Its Ladas still sell in provincial Russia because there are lots of dealers, the cars are cheap and there are few alternatives.
Turnout rose in provincial England by four points to around a third, but fell by two points in London to a record low.
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He does not expect such methods to be promoted in provincial-level party organs or higher until at least the end of the next decade.
Journalists, particularly those in provincial areas, are vulnerable to physical attack.
Daud Ali Najafi, an IEC director, said Sunday that 75 percent of the results from local polling centers have been sent to authorities in provincial capitals.
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Self-deprecating and friendly, with big freckles and a ready smile beneath unfashionably boxy glasses, he is as unassuming as the company headquarters in provincial Toyota City.
The club is effectively controlled by a South African group, who also have a stake in provincial sides the Sharks and the Stormers in their home country.
Mr Flores studied the vote in provincial areas, finding that in places where only Mr Fujimori had observers he won 56.05%, compared with 49.6% where opponents were present.
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Most of the violence occurred in provincial and rural areas.
Overall, the vote for minor parties rose by two points to 7.6% in provincial England, and by more than three points to no less than 9.2% in London.
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But many of these are descendants of Christians who were killed or deported as the Ottoman empire collapsed, and went on to be big traders in provincial African towns.
Though Mr. Campbell talks of toughening a balanced-budget law, he has also admitted that his plan to reduce income taxes without making big spending cuts means renewed deficits in provincial finances until 2004.
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Kabul's police chief recently issued an order for the provision of private toilets for women in provincial police stations, but the New York-based rights organisation says similar directives have not been implemented in the past.
Morelli shared with Travelwise a few bargaining techniques that have landed her exceptional deals on unique items around the world - from 19th-century apothecary jars in Sicily to a hand-carved walnut armoire in provincial France.
In recent provincial elections in Alberta and Ontario parties linked to Mr Harper lost elections they expected to win.
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