In Brief: PIA Piasecki bond issue; Telfonia Dialog results; first case of SECT: CZD?

Construction company PIA Piasecki this week will present details of its bonds' issue. The company plans to issue convertible bonds worth zl. 50 million to zl. 60 million in one tranch of not more than 6,000 bonds worth zl. 10,000 each. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 5) ... Telefonia Dialog, the third largest telecommunication operator noted a net loss of zl. 47.3 million for the first quarter of 2002. This was zl. 19 million less than expected. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B3) ... A hospital in Lodz has two patients suspected to have been infected with Creutzfeld-Jacob disease (CZD), the human form of BSE. The two teenage girls have symptoms that are typical for CZD, and neither of them have ever left Poland. (Zycie, p. 6) A.D.