91.   The sale would enable Barclays to concentrate its actitivies abroad on investment banking through its subsidiary Barclays de Zoete Wedd, group managing director Martin Taylor said.

92.   Maju group managing director Abu Talib Mohamed said Maju was studying various fund-raising options, which could include using its listed associate Sanda Plastics Bhd. to raise funds.

93.   The company said said Hutchison group managing director Canning Fok would be named deputy chairman of CKI alongside George Magnus.

94.   The group also asnnounced that chairman Edouard de Royere would leave in a few months, and he will be replaced by Alain Joly, group managing director.