1. Burma Category: Economy - Budget: revenues: NA; expenditures: NA (2007 estimate)


2. India Category: Communications - Telephone system: general assessment: recent deregulation and liberalization of telecommunications laws and policies have prompted rapid growth; local and long distance service provided throughout all regions of the country, with services primarily concentrated in the urban areas; steady improvement is taking place with the recent admission of private and private-public investors, but combined fixed and mobile telephone density remains low at about 30 for each 100 persons nationwide and much lower for persons in rural areas; extremely rapid growth in cellular service with modest declines in fixed lines; domestic: mobile cellular service introduced in 1994 and organized nationwide into four metropolitan areas and 19 telecom circles each with about three private service providers and one state-owned service provider; in recent years significant trunk capacity added in the form of fiber-optic cable and one of the world's largest domestic satellite systems, the Indian National Satellite system (INSAT), with 6 satellites supporting 33,000 very small aperture terminals (VSAT); international: country code - 91; a number of major international submarine cable systems, including Sea-Me-We-3 with landing sites at Cochin and Mumbai (Bombay), Sea-Me-We-4 with a landing site at Chennai, Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) with a landing site at Mumbai (Bombay), South Africa - Far East (SAFE) with a landing site at Cochin, the i2i cable network linking to Singapore with landing sites at Mumbai (Bombay) and Chennai (Madras), and Tata Indicom linking Singapore and Chennai (Madras), provide a significant increase in the bandwidth available for both voice and data traffic; satellite earth stations - 8 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) and 1 Inmarsat (Indian Ocean region); 9 gateway exchanges operating from Mumbai (Bombay), New Delhi, Kolkata (Calcutta), Chennai (Madras), Jalandhar, Kanpur, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, and Ernakulam (2008)


3. Antigua and Barbuda Category: Economy - Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March


4. Eritrea Category: Geography - Area - comparative: slightly larger than Pennsylvania


5. China Category: Economy - Natural gas - proved reserves (cu m): 2.265 trillion cu m (1 January 2008 estimate)

United Arab Emirates Facts Info Stuff (AE):

1. Malaysia Category: People - Population growth rate (%): 1.742% (2008 estimate)


2. Austria Category: Economy - Imports - commodities (%): machinery and equipment, motor vehicles, chemicals, metal goods, oil and oil products; foodstuffs


3. Panama Category: Communications - Radio broadcast stations: AM 101, FM 134, shortwave 0 (1998)


4. Tajikistan Category: Government - Capital: name: Dushanbe; geographic coordinates: 38 35 N, 68 48 E; time difference: UTC+5 (10 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)


5. Uganda Category: Economy - Oil - proved reserves (bbl): 0 bbl (1 January 2006 estimate)

1. New Caledonia Category: Transportation - Airports: 25 (2007)


2. Uruguay Category: People - Death rate (deaths/1,000 population): 9.12 deaths/1,000 population (2008 estimate)


3. Uganda Category: Government - Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal


4. Saint Lucia Category: People - HIV/AIDS - deaths: NA


5. Cocos (Keeling) Islands Category: Geography - Map references: Southeast Asia