1.   Anek said the airforce hoped the US would view the request to sell thebooking licence to a third party as the best solution.

2.   He told reporters the BOT was inclined to sell the licence to a large foreign bank which could better support the expansion of a Thai bank.

3.   The remaining three licences will be sold over three years.

4.   However, they say Moscow has at last agreed to sell the licence to produce the planes, a deal China had sought for several years.

5.   The third company was not named by the communist party newspaper which included selling licences in the same mould as publishing political errors and revealing state secrets.