31.   Officials of top American sugar companies toured a major Cuban operation on Friday, in a brief visit aimed at making contacts for a possible post-embargo future.

32.   One of them, Somchoke Sutheeviriwan, is a personnel manager at the sugar company and the brother of Boonphan.

33.   Prasert Siriviriyakul, deputy managing director of the sugar company, came out Monday to proclaim his innocence.

34.   Police say Pradit Siriviriyakul, managing director of the Kaset Thai sugar company, hired the hitman who gunned down Michael Wansley.

35.   Provincial police investigating the killing of a senior Australian accountant said Friday corrupt former executives of a sugar company may be behind the murder.

36.   Rossello is also planning to privatize a host of government industries, including the hospitals, the sugar company, a convention center and a handful of luxury hotels.

37.   Taylor said the money would go toward reviving a sugar production company and paving the highway linking central and northern Liberia, among other projects.

38.   The three executives allegedly plotted the killing because Wansley had uncovered financial wrongdoing at their sugar company.

39.   Two of the suspects work for the ailing sugar refining company the victim, a senior accountant, was helping restructure.

40.   Huhtamaki will take over two Hershey interests in Europe, German praline manufacturer Gubor Schokoladen and the Italian sugar confectionary company Sperlari Srl.