11.   Khairuzzaman had served in the Bangladeshi mission in Manila until the government sacked him and five others holding similar diplomatic assignments.

12.   On Monday, the Turkish government sacked the prison director and prosecutor at Umraniye following the uprising.

13.   Sunday, the government sacked the army and navy chiefs of staff for suspected support for the pro-democracy movement.

14.   The government has sacked the head of struggling state insurance company GAN, Jean-Jacques Bonnaud, a finance and economy ministry spokesman said Monday.

15.   The government sacked two commission officials and ordered a probe into graft in the bourse after retail traders demonstrated to demand action against corrupt brokers.

16.   The government in February sacked the entire board of the Civil Aviation Authority after allegations its members had been influenced by political parties seeking to cash in on contracts.

17.   The Nigerian government Monday sacked the administrator of a powerful oil union for his alleged inability to keep pace with the current re-organisation going on in the labour movement.