1.   In addition we will have with us and I am sure that the opportunity should be given to him to share news on Zimbabwe and the drought situation.

2.   Moreover, the rains themselves do not necessarily indicate that the long-term drought situation has changed.

3.   Although government funds were scarce, he said it would find the money to deal with the drought situation.

4.   Considering records of past years, the drought situation in Phrae this year will likely be serious, said Public Health Ministry Permanent Secretary Prakom Wuthipong.

5.   He added that the El Nino pattern also showed higher rainfalls after April and would end the drought situation in Sabah, already facing shortage of water.

6.   The area the assessment team will visit also includes rangeland and pastoral zones in southern Ethiopia bordering on Kenya, where similar drought situations exist.

7.   Tan said, his ministry would continue to monitor the drought situation and would distribute the donations on a district by district basis.

8.   The assessment team will visit rangeland and pastoral zones in southern Ethiopia bordering on Kenya, where similar drought situations exist.

9.   But authorities remain cautious if the rainfall will be enough to ease the drought situation.

10.   Water-dependent TFT-LCD panel makers also benefited from hopes the drought situation will ease after projections of a rainfall for next week.