101.   The Japanese government has been promising to reshape the economy by supporting new businesses in advanced technologies and easing regulations to encourage investments and ventures.

102.   The report also proposed easing a regulation on advertising medical services.

103.   The OECD made similar reform recommendations, such as cleaning up the bad debts, easing regulations and encouraging competition in utilities and other sectors.

104.   The United States has been prodding Japan to clean up the bad debts and to ease government regulations as steps toward recovery.

105.   The United Sates says Japan must ease regulations in the major sectors before allowing the Japanese companies that dominate them to enter the third sector.

106.   U.S. officials want Japan to expand the number of dealerships handling imported vehicles and ease regulations on repair parts, Japanese media reported.

107.   With cultural demands diversifying and bureaucrats easing regulations on what South Koreans can see and read, Paek says his game has barely begun.

108.   -- Ease regulations governing the heavily protected bond market and inflows of foreign funds.

109.   Authorities here have been considering easing those regulations for several months amid reports of worsening food and fuel shortages in North Korea.

110.   Before embarking on a swing through industrial sites, Muoi told South Korean businessmen on Wednesday that Vietnam would ease regulations in order to lure foreign investment.