Under the new system, 230 seats in the government will be allocated to the country's 18 provinces -- also called governorates -- based on the number of people registered to vote in each province for the January 30 election.

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The Basques have no such worries: each Basque province and Navarre collect their own taxes and hand over less than 10% to the central government in Madrid.

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Shanghai, Henan province and Jiangsu province each reported one new case, and Zhejiang province reported two, the official Xinhua news agency reported this evening.

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In Fujian province each spring, tens of thousands of the faithful parade from town to town in religious "long marches" celebrating localized Taoist gods.

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In each town or province, the program organizes local sari-sari stores into a group, and turns one of the stores into a large "Community Store" that doubles as a wholesale market where the owners of other smaller stores in the area can procure the goods they need.

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Each year, the Peruvian province of Chumbivilcas hosts the vibrant Christmastime festival of Takanakuy.

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That was Malta's first goal against the province who had won each of the five previous matches between the countries.

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The closest it could come was by borrowing a calculation of a similar move for Northern Ireland, suggesting that a cut to the Irish Republic's corporation tax rate of 12.5% would raise growth rates in the province by 1% each year, and create 58, 000 jobs by 2030.

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The two women are standing against each other for the Senate in the province of Buenos Aires, home to 40% of Argentines and long Mr Duhalde's political bailiwick.

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Each one of these UNESCO sponsored CLCs is located in a different province, typically in disadvantaged areas, and is normally complimented by a large number of small-scale satellite CLCs, established by communities, local authorities or NGOs.

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Chatting with farmers in Pingchang county in neighboring Sichuan province, we totaled some 100 demands in fees, levies and quotas that each family had to satisfy.

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But in 29 chapters, each narrated by a different character, he weaves together a spellbinding tale of life in an East German province in 1990.

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