21.   George Foulkes, junior minister at the Department of International Development said that the money will go towards food relief and agricultural rehabilitation projects.

22.   Harsono said the local administration would drop food relief to flood-hit villages.

23.   He was responding to a question in Parliament about whether politicians were asking for under-the-table payments from companies bidding to supply food relief.

24.   Later Thursday he met with President Kim Young-sam of South Korea on a range of security issues including coordinating food relief for the North.

25.   Officials at the center said some food relief was already being sold in town markets.

26.   South Korea has also decided to donate several million dollars in food relief.

27.   The emergency appeal for next year covers activities including food relief, checking prison conditions and medical care.

28.   The government was organizing medical and food relief for people left homeless in flooded areas.

29.   The subdistrict had also requested food relief from the Baliho Catholic diocese, Francisco added, although he did not say whether the aid was forthcoming.

30.   He pointed to the United Nations World Food Programme as the organisation of choice for distributing the food relief.