Another three soldiers were wounded in the remote mountainous district near the Afghan border.

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Last year it shifted Myanmar's capital from the port of Yangon to Naypyidaw, in a remote mountainous region.

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Eide said 3, 000 donkeys were "mobilized" to carry ballots to remote mountainous regions.

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Born on October 25, 1944 into a rural family where both parents were schoolteachers, Mr. Ren spent his primary and middle school years in a remote mountainous town in Guizhou Province, and studied at Chongqing Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture, where he graduated in 1963.

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According to the BBC's Ian MacWilliam in Kabul, Baghran lies in a poor, remote and mountainous region, which would have difficulty supporting large numbers of fighters at the best of times.

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Musharraf is popular in Chitral because he directed development money there while in office and oversaw the completion of an important tunnel that connects the remote, mountainous area to the rest of the country.

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Rescue teams had already reached the remote villages in mountainous Baoxing County on foot, but landslides were blocking access to aid trucks and preventing some of the casualties from being brought out.

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