41.   Yet, the World Wildlife Fund says the number of whales being killed is rising every year because Norway and Japan are ignoring the ban.

42.   Xie Zhenhua, director of the State Bureau of Environmental Protection, said mills that ignore the ban will be severely punished.

43.   French police said Sunday they had arrested a dozen people and fined them for ignoring the ban.

44.   British and US newspapers and broadcasting outlets have ignored the ban.

45.   But opposition supporters who have gathered daily in their hundreds of thousands to demand the president step aside, ignored the ban on marches.

46.   The spokesman said if the city bus company running the route decided not to continue the service, the UNHCR would ignore the ban and run its own service.

47.   The station ignored the ban.

48.   Xie Zhenhua, the director of the Bureau, warned that mills which ignored the ban would be severely punished.

49.   Legal steps will be taken if the ban is ignored, the information ministry said without giving a reason for the move.

50.   Some traders in China are ignoring a ban on over-the-counter trading in securities, an official said Thursday, leading to a warning from regulators.