11.   Another important change is upgrading business and economic news to combat increasingly successful financial dailies.

12.   But as part of efforts to strengthen defense ties the government has decided to order production from the Japanese companies, the Nihon Keizai financial daily said.

13.   Fujimura volunteered the information to association officials at the hospital where he remains a patient, the financial daily Nihon Keizai said.

14.   He enjoyed discussing the markets, and had three financial dailies delivered to Camp Lejeune.

15.   He was commenting on a report by an Italian financial daily that he would be replaced as chairman by managing director Cesare Romiti.

16.   Honda is in talks with the Chinese government to construct the plant in the southeastern Chinese city of Guangzhou, the Nihon Keizai financial daily said.

17.   In talks late Thursday night, Summers and Japanese finance official Eisuke Sakakibara agreed to work together to boost the yen, the Nihon Keizai financial daily reported.

18.   Kommersant, a respected financial daily, said Wednesday that Gusinsky and Berezovsky were threatening to wage a full-scale media attack to discredit the deal.

19.   NTT DoCoMo initially planned to list on the New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange in September, the Nihon Keizai financial daily said.

20.   The BOJ is expected Monday to downgrade its assessment of the economy, paving the way for a change in rates, the Nihon Keizai financial daily said Thursday.