11.   Although officially Hanoi and Pyongyang remain allied, links are minimal and Vietnam this year balked at providing North Korea with rice under a soft loan arrangement.

12.   Among the projects the union has proposed is fish farming along Kali Malang River and the provision of soft loans for the jobless to start businesses.

13.   Also, candidates will have access to soft loans from the European Investment Bank and the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development and bilateral aid from individual EU governments.

14.   Asked about his political agenda, he said he wanted first to give every journalist soft loans to buy a car.

15.   Besides providing soft loans and easy payment schemes, co-operatives should also venture into agriculture to help members offset the high prices for imported vegetables.

16.   Candidates also have access to soft loans from the European Investment Bank for Reconstruction and Development and aid from individual governments.

17.   Candidates also have access to soft loans from the European Investment Bank for Reconstruction and Development and bilateral aid from individual governments.

18.   China says the soft loans are critical to its efforts to combat poverty and protect the environment.

19.   He said his country would also provide soft loans to finance some of the projects here which had been approved by the government.

20.   In recent years, Taiwan has added Senegal, Gambia, Burkina Faso and Guinea-Bissau to its list of allies by offering development aid and soft loans.