21.  German diversified trading group Veba AG and Cable and Wireless PLC of Britain announced Friday they will discontinue their telecommunications alliance.

22.  He encouraged investors to recruit others and the organization eventually consisted of different trading groups set up in pyramid fashion, prosecutors said.

23.  In helping build regional trading groups, Indonesia is staying away from restrictive arrangements, President Suharto said Thursday.

24.  The company is a subsidiary of the Glencore International trading group based in Zug, Switzerland.

25.  The region is now the fifth largest trading group in the global economy.

26.  The trading group also welcomed talks between Argentina and Britain on the Falkland Islands, the South Atlantic archipelago claimed by Argentina as Las Malvinas.

27.  The trading group made progress on other fronts too.

28.  The trading group made progress, meanwhile, on other fronts.

29.  Habtoor, chairman of the billionaire Al-Habtoor trading group, now has three other children by his Emirati wife.

30.  British conglomerate Jardine Matheson Ltd. Friday announced it is selling its French car dearlership, Cica, to European motor trading group PGA.