21.   Banks led the decline, amid concern increasing loan defaults from property developers could hammer earnings.

22.   Banks lent trillions of yen to property developers, construction firms and other businesses -- all of it tied to land.

23.   Banks and property developers such as New World Development Co. Ltd. led the decline, accounting for more than two-thirds of the index loss.

24.   Bank shares remained weak, undermined by fading rate-cut hopes and talk that they face loan defaults by property developers.

25.   Belle executives have said that they will maintain the company as a property developer and operator of casinos.

26.   Big decliners today included PT Jakarta Setiabudi Property, a property developer.

27.   Foreign funds sold property developers, which have led the rally this year.

28.   A mountain of bad loans to property developers, an export slump, and the slowest growth in a decade battered Thai stocks, burning many foreign funds.

29.   Africa-Israel shares dropped because the battle for control of the property developer ended last week, Heifetz said.

30.   All lenders have been hurt by loan defaults, particularly by property developers.