11.   China Daily quoted an unidentified CITIC spokesman as saying the brokerages offered massive credit lines to CITIC Shanghai without notifying the parent company.

12.   China has been doing more to enhance laws against piracy and clean up its markets, Xinhua quoted a ministry spokesman as saying.

13.   China will stop nuclear testing once a comprehensive test ban treaty is implemented, the official Xinhua News Agency quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying.

14.   Earlier this month, Baghdad invited British weapons inspectors to check the country for weapons, an Iraqi newspaper quoted an official spokesman as saying.

15.   Eight of the injured were in critical condition, Press Trust of India quoted a government spokesman as saying.

16.   First Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Maslyukov, a Communist, was quoted by his spokesman as saying that anti-Semitism was unacceptable in Russia.

17.   Five people swam ashore, United News of India quoted a police spokesman as saying in Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan state.

18.   Further details were not immediately available, although the Interfax news agency cited a military spokesman as saying without elaboration that the cause had been established.

19.   In a Monday night report, the agency quoted a military spokesman as saying the helicopter crashed during a flight back to base after taking part in war games.

20.   In Baghdad, INA quoted a military spokesman as saying that Iraqi forces fired seven missiles at the planes in the south.