• Aid teams are starting to assess the scale of damage in the remote region.

    BBC: Teams start assessing tsunami-hit Solomon Islands

  • Villagers in a remote region of Laos that has neither electricity nor telephone connections are being wired up to the Internet.

    ECONOMIST: Internet connectivity

  • They already face the challenges of daily life in a remote region plagued by violence from rogue militias and outbreaks of disease.

    NPR: Congolese Hunt 'Osama' the Hippo

  • Deep in a remote region of Cameroon, we are following two hunters looking for bush meat -- forest animals they can kill to feed their families.

    CNN: Tracking deadly viruses' spread from animals to humans

  • "Even tonight, after the attack, more than 40 peacekeepers remain with the villagers in this remote region to protect them from this armed group, " Ban said.

    CNN: Thousands flee after Ivory Coast attack

  • But it is to Puno, a poor and remote region of 1.3m on the border with Bolivia, that those Peruvians who fear an impending populist shift look most closely.

    ECONOMIST: Would-be populists everywhere

  • If boaters, fishermen and beachgoers find these blocks and contact the scientists by the information on the blocks, they will help the debris trackers' understanding of the motion of debris and currents in this remote region.

    MSN: Survey Keeping Close Tabs on Japan Tsunami Debris

  • "We are delighted at the honour bestowed upon Nabanna, " said Falguni Mondol, 35, a resident of Arbelia and a direct beneficiary of Nabanna, which is innovating on web-based databases and information sharing through internet to benefit the poor women of Baduria a remote region in West Bengal's North 24-Parganas district which is the pilot site for Nabanna.

    UNESCO: Communication and Information

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

    ECONOMIST: Myanmar

  • Chinese washing machine manufacturer Heier sent a technician to a remote agricultural region in China where they had been receiving numerous breakdowns.

    FORBES: Disrupted Rainy Weekend Reading (Or Viewing): IBM On Disruptive Innovation

  • Rebels in a remote northern region of Ethiopia have blamed government forces for the deaths of five European tourists in a clash last week.

    BBC: Ethiopia rebels blame troops for Afar tourist deaths

  • He said the soldier from the French Foreign Legion was killed as special forces hunted militants hiding in the Ifoghas Massif - a remote mountain region in the Sahara.

    BBC: Mali: French soldier killed fighting Islamists

  • And a good number of people, the skilled weavers of this remote silk region, now earn between two and three times the local wage and a share of the profits while working just a shout away from their children and elders.

    FORBES: Weaving Connections

  • In any event, Plan Colombia has reminded Brazil that its remote northern border region is wide open.

    ECONOMIST: Colombia and its neighbours

  • 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.

    BBC: Afghans 'negotiating Omar handover'

  • If that large patch of atmosphere were over Russia's Kamchatka peninsula, or some other remote but volcanic region, the uncertainty would not be so bad, as it could, at a price, simply be skirted round.

    ECONOMIST: Volcanoes and air travel: Small eruption in Iceland | The

  • Intelligence officials believe bin Laden is hiding in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan, a remote and primitive region with mountain peaks as tall as 14, 000 feet (4, 270 meters) that make the terrain difficult to navigate.

    CNN: Obama administration to ratchet up hunt for bin Laden

  • LIMA, Peru (AP) Peru's government declared an environmental state of emergency on Monday in a remote Amazon jungle region it says has been affected by years of contamination at the country's most productive oil fields, which are currently operated by Argentina-based Pluspetrol.

    NPR: Peru Declares Amazon Oil Contamination Emergency

  • The Kara Sea region is remote, sparsely populated and bitterly cold, frozen over for much of the year.

    BBC: Russia explores old nuclear waste dumps in Arctic

  • Trade and industry minister Odd Eriksen, petroleum and energy minister Odd Roger Enoksen and fisheries and coastal affairs minister Helga Pedersen all come from Northern Norway, a region geographically remote and in many ways culturally distinct from the more populous South.

    BBC: Arctic landscape

  • The Houthis, as the rebels are known after the name of a leading clan in the remote and spectacularly rugged region, have survived the repeated assaults not just of Yemen's own modern army but also, in the latest campaign, heavy bombardment by the Saudi air force's Tornadoes and F-15 fighter aircraft.

    ECONOMIST: Yemen

  • "They're currently in a remote, paradise-like region of the Peruvian Amazon, which is difficult to access, " he told CNN.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • More likely, the Algerian hostage crisis signals that Islamist extremists and dangerous gangs are gaining ascendancy in that part of the world, a region that is remote but crucial.

    CNN: Algeria crisis is a wakeup call for America

  • The 1, 700km Winnipeg-Churchill line heads north from the Manitoba capital, easing through lake-studded woodland tundra towards the remote, sub-arctic northern region.

    BBC: Majestic Canada, coast to coast

  • But the State Department warned that the region is large and remote and that security help might not be readily available.

    CNN: New Malaysia terror threat warning

  • Guides steer motorised canoes deep into the region, pausing in remote villages to visit welcoming local families and lead art buying expeditions (bring waterproof packaging).

    BBC: Papua��s got a brand new bag

  • As U.S. military, Pakistani forces and Afghan officials sought to piece together the incident, Afghan, U.S. and Western officials said the attack took place in response to fire from the remote Pakistani posts in the Mohmand tribal region, a lawless border area that abuts Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province.

    WSJ: Airstrike Ravages U.S.-Pakistan Ties

  • You might be lucky and find that your existing player can be make region-free with a few remote control codes.

    FORBES: Help! I Bought And Paid For My DVDs And Now I Can't Use Them!

  • Intelligence sources in the region say it has makeshift camps in remote desert bordering Algeria and Mauritania.

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