81.   Brokers said investors continued to buy property stocks following a government report earlier this week that showed a sharp increase in land sales last month.

82.   But other analysts said the auction would have limited impact on future government land sales.

83.   Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa said in his policy speech early October that the government will decide whether to resume land sales next March.

84.   Communist Party head Gennady Zyuganov said nationwide unrest would break out if private land sales are allowed.

85.   Communists and other opponents of land sales have specifically based their arguments on the fear that foreigners will buy up Russian land.

86.   For some strange reason rumours of a Malaysian land sale in Singapore strengthened the ringgit.

87.   He added Israel had no right to criticize since it has its own regulations that discriminate against land sales to non-Jews.

88.   He convened the council on Monday to discuss reforms in land sales.

89.   He said the flexibility of the government on land sales was another crucial factor affecting the market outlook.

90.   His comments signaled support for a draft amendment on land sales, supported by four centrist parties, which will be introduced in the Duma on Friday.