81.   Last year, the tiny Gulf island state set up a committee to draft laws to combat money laundering.

82.   Last month, the government gave its go-ahead for the first independent newspaper to be published in the tiny Gulf island state.

83.   Medical facilities and doctors in most island states are ill-equipped to handle AIDS cases.

84.   MANAMA, Bahrain -- Tiny Bahrain, a normally placid island state often called the Switzerland of the Gulf, exploded into rioting last month.

85.   Meanwhile, Singapore police smashed seven illegal bookmaking centers and arrested nine men in that island state, the statement said.

86.   Migration officials boarded an Australian navy ship off Nauru on Thursday to prepare another group of refugees for transfer to a makeshift camp on the tiny Pacific island state.

87.   Mezhcombank is the first Russian bank to operate in the island state, which is a major financial center for the oil-rich Gulf.

88.   Most island states have also attacked Chirac.

89.   Most of the poorest countries are in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, but they also include Caribbean and Pacific island states.

90.   Most of the central Gulf island state is rocky or covered by sand which is too poor to support vegetation, and water is scarce.