1.   It will also keep watch for dodgy debt-for-equity swaps which leave banks owning chunks of ailing firms.

2.   Motivated by a selfless desire to assist an ailing firm back on its feet, without interfering in its structure, its established systems?

3.   Activists complain they have failed to protect workers against widespread layoffs and other wrenching changes at ailing state firms.

4.   Among the measures which the BAP floated were debt rescheduling, loan restructuring, capital infusion or a change in management of ailing firms.

5.   Finance Minister Tarrin Nimmanahaeminda will Monday announce which of the suspended ailing firms will be permanently closed down.

6.   He said one way of helping an ailing firm was through a restructuring exercise.

7.   His endorsement of bolder reforms for ailing firms played to liberals, but his hard line on crime and corruption was aimed at conservatives.

8.   Jiang proposed a shake-up of ailing state firms, including sell-offs, share issues, takeovers and other capitalist remedies that appeal to liberals.

9.   Meanwhile, core assets of the ailing firms are expected to go under the hammer in late March.

10.   Millions of Chinese are expected to be thrown out of work as ailing state firms and inefficient family farms succumb to foreign competition.