More fighting is expected along the borders, despite efforts by the regional organisation, Ecowas, to monitor the area.

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Sometimes it seems that Western cultural centers such as New York, London and Paris are better places from which to monitor the breadth of contemporary regional culture than Asia itself.

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Existing regional media structures will be taken into account to promote and monitor press freedom, and to develop joint activities aimed at regulating and promoting media through professional training.

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"It's a group very aware there are a lot of intelligence agencies trying to monitor their activities, " said Harry Godfrey, regional managing director for Kroll Associates in Hong Kong.

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For example, the regional average of ownership is 16.45%, according to Business Monitor International.

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At the Harare meeting, a regional task-force was set up to meet every few weeks to monitor events in Zimbabwe.

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Prudential will monitor the global progress of Y2K's impact through a set of regional command centers, all feeding information to a main war room.

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