'Daewoo is like a rotten pillar. The Government should pull out the rotten pillar and build a better Korea with a new one.' LG Securities analyst Yoon Sam-wi.
'In London, there are special circumstances. Everybody wants to come to London. Britpop may have run out of steam but the Cool Britannia thing is still going on. London is the financial centre of Europe. The Germans hoped Berlin would be it, but they haven't got a hope and Paris is just a theme park.' Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors spokesman Mike Nicholls.
'The Government's heavy-handed measures would seriously damage Hong Kong's reputation as a free market.' Hong Kong stock exchange chairman Lee Hon-chiu on the Government's efforts to deregulate and merge the futures and stock exchanges.
'If the government is serious in shoring up the price or encouraging buyers to cover short positions, it must have the willpower to refrain from selling until the market improves. But this government is ready to sell rubber once anyone knocks at the door. Why would buyers be in the market when they know they can always buy cheap rubber from the stockpile? When the government does that, we don't make business. When we don't make business, we don't buy from farmers. When we don't buy from farmers, the government has to buy. The vicious circle must stop somewhere.' A Thai rubber trader.
'The case has had an enormous impact on investment. People are asking when does business stop and corporate crime begin.' A Vietnamese economist on the country's biggest corruption trial, which started in May.
'The danger is . . . an unwarranted, perhaps euphoric, extension of recent developments can drive equity prices to levels that are unsupportable. Such straying above fundamentals could create problems for our economy when the inevitable adjustment occurs,' US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan.
