1.   The announcement of the qualified bidders follows more than two months of analysis by ministry experts to determine which groups had sufficient financial and technical capabilities.

2.   A panel of ministry experts confirmed the diagnosis Monday.

3.   Further analyses, conducted by hospital doctors and ministry experts, were underway, with results expected on Wednesday.

4.   Health Minister Osman Durmus already had asked ministry experts to study the effect of the Pokemon cartoon on children.

5.   Miroslav Spasojevic, another ministry expert, says present signs are alarming enough.

6.   Ministry experts blamed the cuts on high interest rates introduced to counter financial turbulence battering Brazil, the daily said.

7.   They said a team of ministry experts is studying ways to defuse the device, but the ministry is running short of money to deal with the problem.

8.   A panel of transport ministry experts will also re-examine current government standards for constructing subways following unexpected damage caused to underground railway lines in Kobe.

9.   An Israeli defence ministry expert, Aaron Mos, told Haaretz however that the Scuds were not a threat to Israel as the two countries were at peace.

10.   British fisheries ministry experts were to examine the Chimbote and its nets over the weekend.