Many are rounded up in Beijing by police despatched from their hometowns, sometimes tipped off by central-government officials.
The latest clash involving Chinese patrol boats occurred 120km (80 miles) off the south-central coast of Vietnam and some 600km south of China's Hainan island.
The Drumcree stand-off is not central to the fraught peace process, but it recurs as a kind of barometer of unionist public opinion.
In a move first reported by The New York Times, Viacom has decided to pull The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (among the top three most popular series on Hulu this week), spin-off The Colbert Report and other Comedy Central series from the video-sharing site next week.
The side in fifth face a play-off with the fourth-placed team in the North, Central America and Caribbean group.
The top four teams qualify for the World Cup while the fifth-placed team enters a home-and-away play-off with the fourth-placed team from the North, Central America and Caribbean region.
Other hopefuls include Comedy Central spin-off The Colbert Report, which entered the episode where Stephen Colbert heads to Irag and is greeted via satellite by Barack Obama, and veteran candidate Saturday Night Live.
The main island, Apo Island -- not to be confused with the better known island of the same name off the island of Negros in the central Philippines -- is a palm-fringed beauty, ringed by golden sand and home to an emerald-green interior lagoon embraced by mangroves.
Grab a bagel with cream cheese and lox and head east to the intriguing, esoteric American Museum of Natural History, which is housed in a massive 19th-century Beaux Arts building off Central Park West.
Already some central banks have held off interest-rate increases that looked certain a few weeks ago.
As he mentioned throughout the campaign, the need -- having taken our eye off of the central front in this battle, taken our eye off of that, that we needed to increase our military commitment.
It is worrying that all three of the big central banks seem to be veering off-course.
In Ms. McCloskey's view, this shift in perceptions was central to the economic take-off of the West.
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Electronic tagging of 150 great white sharks found off the coast of central California revealed similar findings - the sharks gather in "hotspots".
But even after watching the Daily Show for the past week, the notion of a Comedy Central produced political rally still sits off-balance in my oft-laughing belly.
It all started nine months ago on a scorching summer's day in Lithuania, where the Cottagers beat FK Vetra in the third qualifying round, before moving on to west-central Russia for the qualifying play-off second leg against Amkar Perm.
Following reports that Cyprus may be selling 400mm euros worth of its gold reserves to help finance its own fiscal problems, many are concerned that other European central banks will begin to sell-off their gold positions to better position themselves to fortify their own sovereign balance sheets.
However, when banks wean themselves off the life-support of loans from the state and the central bank, it is a mixed blessing for the economy - in that banks always do this, in part, by shrinking the loans and investments they make.
Japanese officials hope the achievement, in a test conducted off Japan's central Pacific coast, will win their resource-poor nation a measure of energy independence.
Alexandre Tombini, the affable central banker from Brazil, tried to brush off long-term concerns when I asked if the president's economic team was behind the curve when it repeatedly slashed interest rates to combat a slow-down.
The count would change if the low-budget Minnesota Twins, two games out of first place, knock off the Detroit Tigers (fifth-highest payroll) in the American League Central.
One clear lesson from the past is that while a central bank cannot prevent oil prices giving a one-off boost to inflation, it must try to prevent this feeding into higher wages and prices of other goods and services.
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The Reserve (central) Bank of India is credited with staving off most ill-effects of the Global Financial Crisis with its hyperconservative regulation.
Lars Svensson, an academic at Princeton University who has recently become a deputy governor of the central bank in his native Sweden, formulates this trade-off as an equation.
Soon after a light sell-off began, more pressure was added to the euro when the European Central Bank (ECB) reported that M3 Money Supply remained steady at 0.2% growth.
Once in France, he refused to take part in his trial, on the ground that the judges had put off-limits an issue that he far from alone considered central to the case, the sale of some French frigates to Taiwan in 1991.
What needs to happen, if Greece is to remain in the eurozone in the longer term - they say - is for eurozone governments and the European Central Bank to write off a big slug of what they are owed.
Granted, that is small beer, given that prices have trebled since the central London property market took off after Britain was ejected from the exchange-rate mechanism in 1992.
Stocks were off to the races Thursday, after the European Central Bank unveiled a new bond-buying program and a closely-watched indicator for the U.S. labor market delivered an upbeat reading.
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