21.   Officials said labour ministry staff were Wednesday briefing the newly appointed top union personnel on their new task.

22.   New talks are planned for later on Thursday, with the labour ministry acting as a mediator.

23.   Nagai said he expected the labour ministry would start working out new guidelines on preventing sexual harassment in the workplace in Japan.

24.   Ogbemudia called on retired oil industry managers, administrators and engineers to show up at labour ministry offices with a view to getting a job.

25.   Once established the coops were declared bankrupt with the approval of the labour ministry and other similar enterprises set up.

26.   Outgoing President Ali Hassan Mwinyi later switched Mrema to the labour ministry.

27.   Talks between the unions and the labour ministry, which broke down last Wednesday, have not been reconvened.

28.   The Bankers Employers Association declared the strike illegal and said the matter had been referred to the labour ministry.

29.   The demonstrators, led by leading anti-child labour activist Kailash Satyarthi, ringed the federal labour ministry and shouted anti-government slogans, witnesses said.

30.   The figures provided by the labour ministry cover only those people registered in employment agencies as looking for work.