1.   Yamaichi International Capital has five overseas subsidiaries under its umbrella, the Japanese economic daily said.

2.   Mohamed Sayed is one of the aliases used by Atta, the economic daily Hospodarske Noviny reported Friday.

3.   The bad news for bilateral trade relations came on the same day a major economic daily published a study suggesting a longer-term tendency in the opposite direction.

4.   The economic daily Hospodarske Noviny Monday quoted unidentified government sources as saying it could now stretch into summer.

5.   The Japanese government has decided to resume its long-suspended economic assistance to Laos in the near future, an economic daily reported Friday.

6.   The leading economic daily cited results of FSA inspections, which it said were to be made public on Friday.

7.   The Nihon Keizai economic daily said the government wants to compile an outline this week.

8.   Franco-British consortium GEC-Alsthom chief Claude Darmon told the economic daily Tribune-Desfosses said that all outstanding problems had been overcome.

9.   However, an economic daily, Les Echos, reported on Tuesday that while the finance minister Alain Madelin favors the surtax, Juppe is against it.

10.   A retired reporter for a Japanese economic daily returned to Japan Tuesday after being held for more than two years by North Korea on suspicion of spying.