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Tuesday, May 26, 1998

	Curtains for Shabana play in Pakistan The latest victim of tit-for-tat cancellation of cultural events in India and Pakistan is Tumhari Amrita, a play starring Shabana Azmi and Farooque Shaikh. Five shows of the play were to have been staged in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad -- beginning May 21. But with barely 24 hours left for the first show, organiser Tasneem Jaffer called off the play citing threats held out by "certain organisations" that the auditoriums staging the play would be attacked.		Pakistan hijack drama ends Pakistani security personnel impersonating as Indian officials overpowered three Baluchis, who hijacked a domestic PIA flight to oppose a possible nuclear test by Islamabad in Baluchistan, after a brief shoot-out at the country's Hyderabad airport ending a nine-hour long drama.
	Containers of nuclear material stolen in Russia As global concerns grow over the increase in smuggling of highly dangerous nuclear material in former Soviet Union, smugglers have once again disappeared with six stolen containers of radioactive material in the Russian city of Volgograd.		NYT reports CIA conspired to topple Sukarno in Indonesia The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had planned a bizarre scheme to bring down Indonesia's first president Sukarno by portraying him in a pornographic film in the late 1950s, the New York Times has claimed. In the late 1950s, it put together a mildly pornographic film starring a lookalike for President Sukarno, caught in bed with a blonde playing a soviet agent.

S-Asia to dominate Clinton-Jiang talks
United States President Bill Clinton will go ahead with his planned visit to China next month, the first by an American head of state since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, and discuss "the crisis in South Asia" among other issues with his Chinese counterpart Jiang Zemin.

Sun Microsystems, Singapore to set up S$45 m Java fund
Sun Microsystems and Singapore's National Computer Board (NCB) said on Monday that they were setting up a venture capital fund to help companies develop Java products and applications. Java is a programming language developed by Sun that allowsapplications to be run on any computing devices.Sun and the NCB would contribute to the fund and were looking to attract venture capitalists to participate.

PIA hijack
Media barons spell doom for press freedom, warns Yeltsin
Globetrotting
Indonesian dissidents granted amnesty, early polls promised
World Vignettes
Umpiring shows FIH in poor light
Dean Jones announces his retirement
Award for Mandela
More to life than hockey
Jayasuriya named vice-captain
Sampras survives as seeds fall
Spain stun Pak, Aussies rout Malaysia
Argentina first team in semis
Democrats win 15 of 20 seats in HK elections
Farooq goes all out to ensure win in Leh seat
Nazis were stranded on Arctic isle after war
Tea, food whip up Sri Lankan firm's bottomline
China to maintain support prices for grains
Rubber outlook bleak as demand slides
Marubeni may boost stake in Indonesia's Chandra Asri
Microsoft, Sega in digital home game machine alliance
Telebras steps towards privatisation
GM gears up for on-time pickup truck
Australian wine industry toasts record vintage