51.   Junior minister George Raj is the only ethnic Indian in the new government.

52.   Jordan was sending a junior minister, Shaher Bak, instead.

53.   Junior minister and Maori legislator Dover Samuels said the protest at the prayer service was an insult to the local Ngapuhi tribe and Clark.

54.   Last weekend, Charles Wardle, junior minister in the British Department of Trade and Industry, resigned his post, saying the exemption had become worthless.

55.   Mahathir said on Wednesday that junior Cabinet ministers will head the government while he is in Japan.

56.   Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Wednesday that junior Cabinet ministers will head the government while he visits Japan for five days, the national news agency reported.

57.   Lord Williams of Mostyn, a junior minister in the Home Office, blamed hereditary peers for attempting to thwart the wishes of the elected Commons.

58.   Mofazzal Hossain, the junior minister for ports and shipping, visited the accident scene and ordered the detention of the cargo ship involved in the collision.

59.   One cabinet minister resigned a day before the censure vote and another junior minister offered to quit the government, raising concerns about the stability of the governing coalition.

60.   On Tuesday, Mohammad Taslimuddin, a junior minister in the Interior Ministry, resigned to spare the government further turmoil over his alleged involvement in a kidnapping.