1.   Among the Singapore companies planning to bid are four state owned companies, the newspaper said.

2.   B.A.T wanted one of its senior executives to take over as the chief executive, newspapers said.

3.   Avazbek Khodjimetov, an official with the Uzbek Foreign Ministry, said newspapers and television stations get into trouble if they call for war, violence or dissension.

4.   Both were among stocks on which securities brokerages plan to sell warrants, newspapers said.

5.   A Finance Ministry panel yesterday decided to recommend the ministry that it allow banks to sell investment trusts at its nationwide branches, the Nihon Keizai newspaper said.

6.   Depending on the size of a market and other conditions, AOL Time Warner eventually might be required to carry at least three online competitors, the newspaper said.

7.   Government officials said any devaluation would be accompanied by changes in economic policies, the newspaper said.

8.   H pylori is naturally dying out, thanks partly to improved sanitation worldwide, says the newspaper.

9.   Hashimoto will appoint former Labor Minister Mitsuo Horiuchi as trade minister and veteran LDP politician Kenzo Muraoka as chief cabinet secretary, newspapers said.

10.   Howard J. Rubenstein, a spokesman for The New York Post, said the newspaper stood by its story.