1.  Argentina, Mexico and Venezuela offered immediate food aid and the Costa Rican government asked for urgent international aid.

2.  Jobless people who ask for immediate food aid are directed to the line for welfare benefits, where they must demonstrate their eligibility for food stamps.

3.  The aid workers compare the camp to an earthquake zone, since hundreds of homes have been flattened and thousands are in need of immediate food and housing.

4.  A government administrator in northern Sri Lanka has called for immediate food supplies to hundreds of thousands of Tamil civilians facing starvation in rebel-held areas.

5.  Vietnam will need more than immediate food assistance for its recovery, Deputy Agriculture Minister Nguyen Thien Luan told the official Vietnam News Agency.

6.  Without immediate food and medical relief hundreds of thousands of war refugees inside Guinea-Bissau face imminent famine, a United Nations refugee agency spokesman said Monday.

7.  Informed sources said the mission could begin early next week, and be followed by immediate food shipments.

8.  As a short-term measure, the government had set aside two million dollars for immediate food assistance, supplementary feeding for under-fives and subsidies to vulnerable groups.

9.  Earlier this month Pyongyang made a fresh appeal through the United Nations, for immediate food aid.

10.  Earlier this month Pyongyang made a fresh request to the United Nations, appealing for immediate food aid.