1.   Bangkok-based bankers said Somprasong may be angling for a bank bailout.

2.   Bonds fell as Tokyo stocks took off on hopes for a bank bailout.

3.   A report in the Maeil Business Newspaper underlined concern that an increasing number of companies are bidding for bank bailouts to preempt collapse.

4.   Aid discussions were suspended late last year over another scandal involving the diversion of bank bailout funds to a company connected to the former ruling party.

5.   But now the courts and the new Congress may dig more deeply into the bank bailout.

6.   Daiei was saved from insolvency at the last moment by a bank bailout orchestrated by the government.

7.   Hashimoto declined to say whether the government was leaning towards a bank bailout, or discuss the magnitude or shape of any assistance program.

8.   He did not hold out hope of bank bailouts or nationalizations of failing banks.

9.   In Japan the government might be on the verge of a bank bailout that would purge the financial system and allow the economy to get back on its feet.

10.   Kemal Dervis, the economy minister, threatened to resign unless the bank bailout passed last week, according to the Turkish press.