The region is looking forward to independence from Bangkok as a major regional center in its own right.

The blue regions of the earth, for example, certainly do not look round.

The first settlers arrived in the region in 1736 looking for gold.

Parts of the city, he says, resemble how the whole region might have looked 400 years ago.

The logic of regional forces, according to administration officials, is that each region looks after its own trouble spots.

He added: 'The region has looked at what we argued for: the uses to which sludge could be put.

Wait, it added, the region will look different after the Iraq war.

From the jet, the whole region had looked more like the landing zone, but here, on the ground, it was much different.

All Europe's coastal regions are looking to the future with concern.

In terms of the consumer market, other regions of the world do not look so good.