MANILA: China has every right to apply for membership of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) but the ... question of China`s entry was a complicated issue requiring careful thought, ADB President Shiro Inoue of Japan said here today [April 26]. Speaking to journalists at the close of the ... annual Board of Governors` meeting ... Mr Inoue noted that Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka had all called for China to join the ADB. ... Only Pakistan called for expulsion of Taiwan from the ADB. ...

Bangladesh was elected to the chairmanship of the bank for 1975/76. News agencies [Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from Cesme, Turkey,] the rich and influential of the Western world gathered in secret here yesterday [April 25] with armed police onguardtoensuretheprivacy oftheirthreeday discussions on major world problems.

The 107 delegates from 16 countries are at the Aegean resort for the annual meeting of the self-styled Bilderberg Conference... . .

The delegates, who are not allowed to take their wives, include British Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, French banker Baron Edmond de Rothschild and NATO Secretary-General Joseph Luns.