1.   Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh was being sent to the southern port city of Karachi where he will be interrogated, ministry secretary Tasneem Noorani told The Associated Press.

2.   Also present were Deputy Minister Datuk Azmi Khalid, ministry secretary- general Datuk Umar Abu and deparment director-general Datuk Soh Chai Hock.

3.   Sanan said yesterday he had assigned ministry permanent secretary Chanasak Yuwaboon to chair the investigation and report back to him.

4.   Suriyon, a former director of Nawamintrachuthit School, reportedly used his connections with a high-ranking ministry official to win his promotion to ministry secretary.

5.   The ministry permanent secretary has been assigned to coordinate and disclose unemployment statistics to avoid conflicting estimates of the labour situation, Trairong said.

6.   Finance ministry permanent secretary Chatumongkol Sonakul told reporters that financial institutions would also be required to write off bad loans over the next two years.

7.   Foreign ministry secretary Farooq Sobhan hinted that Bangladesh peacekeepers could be withdrawn if they faced a serious risk.

8.   Iran News, close to the government, said the subject would be raised between Iranian officials and visiting French foreign ministry secretary general Bertrand Dufourcq.

9.   It is customary in Pakistan for a sitting judge to be appointed as law ministry secretary, although it is an executive office.

10.   An agreement on a formal ceasefire in Guatemala will be signed in Oslo in October, Norwegian foreign ministry state secretary Jan Egeland said on Friday.