31.   Non-performing loans had come down in April from the previous month and were expected to decline further in May.

32.   Sub-prime loans typically come with a high interest rate because lenders take a higher risk of default.

33.   Such loans will come from a special fund created this year to save small businesses from bankruptcy amid an overall economic slowdown.

34.   Such loans will come from a special fund created this year to prevent small businesses from bankruptcy amid an overall economic slowdown.

35.   The loan comes from a special government fund earmarked for humanitarian aid and economic exchanges with the North.

36.   The loans come under a pledge Japan made last December at a meeting of donor countries in Tokyo.

37.   The loan came with conditions that require the government to curtail spending and reform the financial system by liquidating insolvent financial institutions.

38.   The loans originally came from the two credit unions, Anzen Credit Bank and Tokyo Kyowa Credit Association.

39.   The low-interest loan comes from the Kuwaiti Fund for Development, said Badr Al-Mashari Al-Hmeidi, director general of the agency.

40.   The loan will come with a two-and-a-half-year grace period.