Drawn to the resource-rich regions of the Pyrus sector are:

Balikpapan is a seaport city on the east coast of the island of Borneo, in the East Kalimantan, a resource-rich region known for its timber, mining, and petroleum export products.

Another explanation, the papers reported, was that the Kremlin might have been retaliating against Mr. Barinov for his criticism of domestic energy policies, which he said recently were draining the resource-rich region of its gas and oil revenues.

Sinopec said it had no plans to pull out of the resource-rich region despite the attack.

But some say the White House should be worldly wise when it comes to supporting certain countries in volatile but resource-rich regions.

Silesia is a resource-rich and populous region.

However, political opposition prevented the Army from annexing the resource-rich region.

Shell's pipelines run across Nigeria's resource-rich region of swamps, mangroves and creeks.

Moreover, Dr. Stein said, some of their artifacts could undermine the assumption by many scholars that Mesopotamian trade and colonization led to the emergence of complex societies in these resource-rich but relatively underdeveloped regions of Anatolia.

Fighting for the Rain Forest (1996) showed how the involvement of youth in Sierra Leonean rebel movements had little to do with widely-perceived "barbarism" of rebel groups in resource-rich regions.