111.   They also talked about improvements to a transcontinental cargo line involving companies from Bulgaria, Georgia and Iran.

112.   Transactions involving private sector companies should be allowed to proceed without hindrance as long as they meet the legal requirements and the relevant guidelines pertaining to such deals.

113.   Two joint ventures involving foreign companies had won that bidding.

114.   He did not specify which ferry companies were involved.

115.   However, Shafranik said the increased seismic activity would not affect the major oil projects on Sakhalin involving foreign companies.

116.   In September, Mexican tax authorities issued a warrant for his arrest in connection with a fraud case involving his company, Gonzalez Carrasco.

117.   A French judge accompanied by police investigators searched the Paris headquarters of Schneider SA as part of a fraud enquiry involving the company, Schneider officials said Thursday.

118.   Berlusconi has been standing trial since last month in Milan in connection with financial irregularities involving companies in his Fininvest media empire.

119.   But Chancellor Schuessel, who initially approved the deal in principle last year, backtracked at the weekend saying that an alternative deal might involve Austrian companies alone.

120.   Camelot beat an all-charity plan from Virgin chief Richard Branson and consortiums involving television companies, newspapers, banks and top British companies.