41.   No details of the talks, which followed a meeting between Li and a group of Malaysian business leaders, were immediately available.

42.   Prowse said the licence would also enable the bank to service the international banking needs of Malaysian businesses.

43.   The acquisition will enable Hume to work together with Redland in generating a substantial Malaysian building material business, it said.

44.   The claim was made by Jerome Lynch, counsel for one of the defendants, Malaysian business man Heng Suan Lim, in his closing speech.

45.   The Malaysian leader, who is accompanied by government representatives and Malaysian business leaders, is to head to Germany and Poland after leaving Moscow on Saturday.