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To: Bill Ounce who wrote (7466)	11/12/1998 10:17:00 AM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

SCMP -- Beijing protest over futures scam scmp.com Beijing protest march boldest since 1989 REUTERS in Beijing Disgruntled investors cheated in a multimillion-dollar futures scam marched through Beijing yesterday in one of the boldest protests since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. [...] Thousands of Chinese workers invested their life savings with Beijing-based Xinguoda Futures, lured by the promise of monthly interest payments of up to 30 per cent. [...]

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (7466)	11/12/1998 11:25:00 PM
From: Bill Ounce	Respond to of 9980

Gartner says Asia will face big Y2K hit computerworld.com [...] Asian countries in Level 3 (50% failure) include India, Malaysia, North Korea, and, importantly, Japan, Duggan said at a meeting entitled The Y2K Bug: Threat to Business Community, held in Singapore today. [...] Overall, Gartner believes that the year 2000 problem won't cause the global business meltdown that some analysts have predicted, but that it will cause a negative impact on the world economy that will be felt for three to five years.