One issue of fundamental constitutional importance is the relationship between the legal systems of the mainland and the Special Administrative Region (SAR), and the interfacing role of the Basic Law.

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Vermentino is also produced on Italy's mainland, in the coastal region of Maremma in Tuscany and further north in the Liguria region, where Vermentino takes on a decidedly minerally, sometimes almost stony, edge.

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Mainland Europe was not the only region signaled out.

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With the country's own bean-counters trained in Communist-era systems which never paid heed to capitalist ideas like profits or assets accountants are being lured to the mainland from Hong Kong and the rest of the region.

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Since last month, North Korea has repeatedly threatened to strike the U.S. mainland or its bases in the Asian-Pacific region, as well as South Korea and Japan, a move widely seen as an attempt to create anxiety and push South Korea and the U.S. into offering concessions such as aid and security guarantees.

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Doggerland was a low-lying region of forests and wetlands that paleontologists believe connected Britain to the European mainland.

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