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Tuesday, May 5, 1998

	US curbs on Pak lab over Ghauri The United States has imposed sanctions against Pakistan's Khan Research Laboratories and North Korea over the April 6 test of the Ghauri missile. The sanctions were notified in the Federal Register on Monday by the State Departments Bureau of Political and Military Affairs.		With $2 m bounty, NRI launches a hunt for wife and two kids There are different ways one could make it to the cover of Time magazine. You could be the one of the great minds of the 20th century. Or the worlds finest hoopster. Or a princess who died controversially. On the other hand, you could also be an India-born businessman who is hunting for a missing wife and two children with a $ 2 million bounty.
	Liberalisation is key to Asia recovery, says Japan minister Trade liberalisation and tough economic reforms are vital to building a sustained recovery in crisis-hit Asian economies, Japan foreign minister Keizo Obuchi said on Monday. Outlining Tokyo's policy towards its east Asian neighbours in the run-up to the next millennium, Obuchi said Japan would not shirk its responsibility to help fellow Asian states despite its own economic difficulties.		Britain helped topple Sierra Leone Govt The British Government, which claims to espouse an ethical foreign policy, has been rocked by damaging revelations of a London-backed military move to topple the diamond rich west African Government of Sierra Leone. Senior British diplomats, including the High Commissioner and the Foreign Office Minister Tony Lloyd, are likely to be questioned over allegations that they were involved in the clandestine supply of arms and mercenaries to restore Ahmed Tejan Kabbah as president of the country.

Bhutto wants to prove innocence
Former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto has expressed the fear that she might be arrested on return to Pakistan but said she would return home within a week to show the world that her "hands are clean". Bhutto, charged under several corruption cases and with all her assets and properties frozen by the court recently, has said that she was not afraid of being jailed.

Colombo rejects Tiger ceasefire
Sri Lanka has dismissed a Tamil Tiger rebel ceasefire as a propaganda ploy even as a top UN official began investigating the impact of the war on children. Defence Ministry spokesman Sarath Munasinghe said the military had to fight the separatist LTTE because in April 1995 the guerrillas pulled out of an earlier ceasefire after 100 days.

Dutch aim to break jinx
Sampras ends title drought
Soccer violence
Boxer critical after bout
Taylor intends to stay on
With $2 m bounty, NRI launches a hunt for wife and two kids
Back to roots is the name of the game
World Vignettes
Blame it all on Netanyahu if talks fail
Dalai Lama group opens Taiwan office
Say sorry & we'll forgive, Dhaka tells Pak
New interactive web site to help firms tap the globe
Asian crisis shows risks in capital markets
Virus hoax looms large over E-mail users
Telecom progress seen helping African economic development
Clinton to visit General Motors unit in China
ECB row goes to heart of EMU woes
Australian court ruling deals blow to government
ECB actions may determine row's impact on euro value
EMU wall flower Greece finds solace in EU rhetoric