31.   The ministry issued a report saying the economy shrank in the first quarter of this year from the previous three months.

32.   The ministry issued an approval in March after an investigation by Nagasaki city showed they were married.

33.   The ministry issued the order following reports of sugar shortages this week on retail markets.

34.   The ministry issued the statement after China acknowledged Thursday that it had built structures on Pangangiban Reef, a reef in the island chain that the Philippines also claims.

35.   The Russian foreign ministry issued a separate statement endorsing the constitution.

36.   The remaining one million hectares has been neglected.He also said the ministry would issue related directives for plantations and timber companies to develop agroforestry programs.

37.   Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka told a news conference that the ministry issued issued the order after receiving a report from the company about its failure.

38.   Following its first detection and announcement of a cause in the recent outbreak, the ministry issued a warning against eating raw meat.

39.   French authorities refused to disclose the measures being contemplated and the foreign ministry here had issued no statement by midnight Sunday.

40.   In order to provide more extensive guidelines, Miao said the ministry would issue provisional regulations governing foreign investment later this year.