31.   However, under pressure from business, the government has relaxed some aspects of the ban, allowing commercial shipping between the sides via third-party ports.

32.   In recent years, as the Vietnamese government relaxed its repression of people associated with the South, growing numbers have come to visit and, sometimes, invest.

33.   Investors and businesses have been watching carefully for signs that the government will relax such controls, imposed to curb inflation and limit state spending.

34.   Later this month, a special presidential advisory council is expected to formally propose that the government drastically relax restrictions on doing business in China.

35.   Red banners on Tuesday greeted the first group of Chinese tourists to visit Taiwan since the government here relaxed a five-decade ban on mainland tourists.

36.   The demonstrations took place when the government relaxed an indefinite curfew to allow people to shop for food.

37.   The government has relaxed its policy of slaughtering livestock on farms next to infected sites, and has declared some previously infected areas disease-free.

38.   The government on Tuesday relaxed a proposed rule that prohibited commuters from accompanying their cars on the ferry trip between two of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

39.   The government relaxed its grip on media coverage across Azerbaijan on Tuesday for the first time since the accident.

40.   The Howard government in November relaxed a ban on allowing Adams into Australia.