Today the company has more than 10, 000 employees and 90 separate enterprises operating in most provinces.
The UN and Afghan government figures show that the vast majority (95%) of poppy cultivation took place in the nine most insecure provinces in the country's west and south in 2012.
As a result his party controlled the local government in most of the provinces.
Yuhuan is part of the prefecture of Taizhou, and symbolizes the entrepreneurial spirit that has come to characterize all of Zhejiang province, itself considered one of the most entrepreneurial provinces in the country.
This three-year programme is set in six counties of Guizhou, Yunnan and Shaanxi Provinces, identified as the most vulnerable in terms of food security conditions.
Coal is the dominant energy source for generating electricity in China, with Coal-fired power plants account for nearly three quarters of electricity produced in China, and the most intense demand is along the coast in Eastern Chinese provinces.
The acquisition will give SAB access to Kingway's seven breweries, some of which are located in China's most rapidly developing provinces.
Hundreds of logs that appeared to have been felled by saws lay amid the wreckage of the most ravaged communities, in the provinces of Quezon and Aurora, suggesting that deforestation did, indeed, contribute to the destruction brought about by a not untypical series of tropical storms.
Mountainous Nuristan is one of the most volatile and inaccessible provinces in Afghanistan, writes the BBC's Bilal Sarwary.
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The limited but aggressive program focuses on some of the country's most dangerous districts in Kandahar and Helmand provinces.
Big onshore fields in the world's most prolific hydrocarbon provinces are increasingly the preserve of national oil companies, state-owned behemoths like Saudi Aramco and Russia's OAO Rosneft and OAO Gazprom.
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Producers for "Afghan Star" -- Kabul's version of "American Idol" -- travel across Afghanistan's war-torn provinces in search of the country's most talented singers.
Mr Manos is trying to build a power base for the Liberals in Greece's provinces and islands, where people are most dissatisfied with the Socialists' gradual approach to modernisation.
It all but ignores the provinces, whose discontents were among the most divisive forces in pre-coup Pakistan.
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Most Canadian Inuit, following a landmark reform in 1986, live in semi-autonomous provinces, with pipeline and mining revenues.
And we're expecting most of the conflict is going to take place in a mountainous stretch that goes across three of those provinces: Helmand, Uruzgan and Zabul.
With a population of 2.7 million, Mongolia, the most sparsely populated country of the world is divided into 21 aimags (provinces) which are in turn divided into 239 soums (districts).
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