91.   Sjahril refused to comment on whether the government would liquidate more ailing banks.

92.   The agency has also taken over the actual management of seven ailing banks.

93.   The banking watchdog said the banks failed to comply with strict banking regulations to reshape ailing banks, advised by the IMF in May.

94.   Talks have also stalled over the use of public money to bail out ailing banks.

95.   The country earlier had promised the IMF it would let its ailing banks fend for themselves.

96.   The Central Bank will oversee it, liquidating some ailing banks and combining others.

97.   The compromise plan does not answer the question of how much taxpayer money will be used to mop up bad debt at ailing banks.

98.   The government moved Saturday to suspend the operations of seven insolvent banks and take over the management of other seven ailing banks.

99.   The flurry of gloomy forecasts come at a time when Malaysia has launched an ambitious recovery program to pump funds into ailing banks.

100.   The government is broke, and if Primakov wants to pay off wage debts and bail out ailing banks, he appears to have few choices besides printing money.