111.   The Archangel Diamond Corporation, a Canadian mining firm, claims it lost billions of dollars when a Russian partner defaulted on a contract.

112.   The Canadian firm will provide managerial and technical support for the projects, it added.

113.   The Canadian firm, Placer Copper Holdings.

114.   The deal, signed Wednesday, would give the Canadian firms the right to prospect for gold and copper in northern Burma, the New Light of Myanmar said.

115.   The Indonesian authorities have said de Guzman, who worked for Canadian firm Bre-X Minerals Ltd., committed suicide, but his family has expressed doubts.

116.   The government refused this request, as it had a similar proposal by the Canadian firm Bombardier.