41.   Indonesia plans to end subsidies for jet fuel and aviation gasoline in January.

42.   Information Minister Bassem al-Sabei said that most of the added expenditures will be offset by ending subsidies on power supplies and better collection of electricity bills.

43.   It also needs to sell off state-owned companies to end subsidies and compete in an increasingly deregulated European economy.

44.   Prices have soared in Ecuador since Mahuad ended fuel subsidies in September.

45.   Priorities include ending price subsidies, freeing up exchange rates and privatizing thousands of state companies.

46.   Priorities for economic restructuring include ending price subsidies, freeing up exchange rates and privatizing thousands of state companies.

47.   Some analysts have tied the unrest to the IMF reform program which included provision that reduced or ended government subsidies on fuel and food products.

48.   Strikers want Mahuad to back down on austerity measures that have ended fuel subsidies, frozen wages, facilitated privatizations and caused prices to soar for already impoverished Ecuadoreans.

49.   That could be taken as a warning to governments which would like to cut costs by ending subsidies for malpractice insurance, as Ontario proposed to do last year.

50.   The Beijing city government announced Friday that it will end subsidies for cabbage and allow the market to regulate prices starting Saturday.