21.   Police believe Pradit Siriviriyakul, managing director of the Kaset Thai sugar company, hired the hit man who gunned down Michael Wansley.

22.   A Florida sugar company announced it no longer will hire Jamaican cane cutters, saying machines are cheaper than laborers, the government said Friday.

23.   A trial opened Tuesday for three Thai executives on charges of conspiring to murder the Australian auditor hired to help restructure their bankrupt sugar company.

24.   But police Gen. Prasarn Wongyai, heading the investigating team, said there was a strong suspicion that the killing was linked to alleged corruption inside the sugar company.

25.   Chalong, a transport manager for the sugar company, apparently gave police the names of some of the other suspects.

26.   Edgeworth Corporation, a Canadian company was granted prospecting rights under the previous government to mine the beach to produce fertilizer for the state sugar company.

27.   Following the sale of the first tranche of the sugar company, the holding company will then sell all its capital in the company.

28.   Henry A. Walker Jr., who turned a sugar company laden with debts into one with assets worth billions, died of leukemia Friday.

29.   It receives an annual government grant and financial backing from the present-day Tate and Lyle sugar company.

30.   Now the big sugar companies are turning to Congress, where their six-figure political donations have earned them plenty of friends.