6 pm: Anwar says former aide arrested

                   KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's sacked finance minister Anwar
                   Ibrahim said today that authorities had detained his former private
                   secretary and he expected to be arrested later this month.

                   Anwar told a news conference at his suburban home that Mohamed
                   Ahmad, his former private secretary in the Finance Ministry, was
                   arrested early today and that Anwar's lawyers would ask that
                   Mohamed be produced in court. - Reuters