* In December 1998, Jack Ma and other 17 founders released their first online marketplace named " Alibaba Online ".

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system ( APG ) of 1998 and APG II ( 2003 ) assigned the Alismatales to the monocots, which may be thought of as an unranked clade containing the families listed below.

* 1998 – Travelers Group announces an agreement to undertake the $ 76 billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, and the merger is completed on October 8, of that year, forming Citibank.

In 1998 the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group published a phylogeny of flowering plants based on an analysis of DNA sequences from most families of flowering plants.

Chile hosted the second Summit of the Americas in 1998, was the chair of the Rio Group in 2001, hosted the Defense Ministerial of the Americas in 2002, and the APEC summit and related meetings in 2004.

In the 1980s, Colombia broadened its bilateral and multilateral relations, joining the Contadora Group, the Group of Eight ( now the Rio Group ), and the Non-Aligned Movement, which it chaired from 1994 until September 1998.

At the beginning of 1998 the Under Cover Music Group ( UCMG ) took over the rights to use the brand name of the label as well as the trade mark " Harthouse ".

As Area Director of the User Services area, she was a member of the Internet Engineering Steering Group of the IETF from 1990 to March 1998

In 1998, Grammer filed a lawsuit against Internet Entertainment Group, which Grammer claimed had stolen a videotape of him having sex with a woman from his home.

It was introduced in late 1998 and designated a standard for a group of audio and video coding formats and related technology agreed upon by the ISO / IEC Moving Picture Experts Group ( MPEG ) ( ISO / IEC JTC1 / SC29 / WG11 ) under the formal standard ISO / IEC 14496 – Coding of audio-visual objects.

RTSP was developed by the Multiparty Multimedia Session Control Working Group ( MMUSIC WG ) of the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ) and published as RFC 2326 in 1998.

State Street Bank v. Signature Financial Group is the landmark case in which the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled ( July 23, 1998 ) that a computer algorithm can be patented to the extent that it produces " a useful, concrete and tangible result ".

In 1998, PolyGram was in turn sold to Seagram and merged into what is now one of the Big Four record labels, the Universal Music Group, the company that today holds the rights to the entire ABBA back catalogue.

SVG was developed by the W3C SVG Working Group starting in 1998, after Macromedia and Microsoft introduced VML whereas Adobe Systems and Sun Microsystems submitted a competing format known as PGML.

After World War II, Newforge Foods, part of the Fitch Lovell group, were awarded the license to produce the product in the UK ( doing so at its Gateacre factory, Liverpool ), where it stayed until production switched to the Danish Crown Group ( owners of the Tulip Food Company ) in 1998, forcing the closure of the Liverpool factory and the loss of 140 jobs.

Beginning in 1998, a joint working group known as the Austin Group began to develop the combined standard that would be known as the Single UNIX Specification Version 3 and as POSIX: 2001 ( formally: IEEE Std 1003. 1-2001 ).

A 1998 study by South Africa's Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation & the Khulumani Support Group, which surveyed several hundred victims of human-rights abuse during the Apartheid era, found that most felt that the TRC had failed to achieve reconciliation between the black and white communities.

1998 also saw the sale of Rolls-Royce Motors and Cosworth to Volkswagen Group for 430 million pounds beating out BMW's offer of 340 million pounds.

The Open Group released X11R6. 4 in early 1998.

After XFree86 seemed poised to fork, the Open Group relicensed X11R6. 4 under the traditional license in September 1998.

Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998, ISBN 0-275-96370-5

New York: Abbeville Publishing Group ( Abbeville Press, Inc .), 1998 ( ISBN 0-7892-0459-2 ).

The brand was sold to Chrysler Corporation in 1928, passed through the short-lived DaimlerChrysler merger of 1998 – 2007 as part of the Chrysler Group, was a part of Chrysler LLC owned by Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity investment firm, and is now a part of the Chrysler Group LLC, which has an alliance with Fiat.

However Juhanen ( 1992 ) is skeptical about an affiliation of Japanese to Altaic languages, while Róna-Tas ( 1998: 77 ) remarked that a relationship between Altaic and Japanese, if it ever existed, must be more remote than the relationship of any two of the Indo-European languages.

In the 1998 version, Alliaceae were a distinct family ; in the 2003 version, combining the Alliaceae with the Agapanthaceae and the Amaryllidaceae sensu stricto was recommended but optional ; in the 2009 version, only the broad circumscription of the Amaryllidaceae is allowed, with the Alliaceae reduced to a subfamily, Allioideae.

Also, " Absalom, Absalom Would I die for you my son, I would have it all undone, The way it all came down " is found on the 1998 album Largo in the song " Gimme A Stone ".

; Racially or religiously aggravated common assault: This offence is created by section 29 ( 1 )( c ) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.

; Racially or religiously aggravated assault occasioning actual bodily harm: This offence is created by section 29 ( 1 )( b ) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.

under secction 7 ( 1 )( a ), but that section has been superseded by section 66 ( 1 ) of the Police ( Northern Ireland ) Act 1998 ( c. 32 ) which now provides that it is an offence for a person to, amongst other things, assault a constable in the execution of his duty, or a person assisting a constable in the execution of his duty.

* 1998 – Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the " Qur ' an and Sunnah " the " supreme law " but the bill is defeated in the Senate.

The Sir Alexander Fleming Building on the South Kensington campus was opened in 1998 and is now one of the main preclinical teaching sites of the Imperial College School of Medicine.

Canadian scholar Richard Toporoski theorised in 1998 that " if, let us say, an alteration were to be made in the United Kingdom to the Act of Settlement 1701, providing for the succession of the Crown ... t is my opinion that the domestic constitutional law of Australia or Papua New Guinea, for example, would provide for the succession in those countries of the same person who became Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

A memorial pipe organ in Convovation Hall, Acadia University is dedicated to the members of Acadia University killed during the First World War A book of remembrance in Manning Chapel, Acadia University was unveiled on 1 March 1998 through the efforts of the Wolfville Historical Society

* 1998 – HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.

While not without criticism ( e. g. by Neusner, 1998 ), the Steinsaltz edition is widely used throughout Israel, the United States and the world.

Facing the Chancellery is the Bundestag, the German Parliament, housed in the renovated Reichstag building since the government moved back to Berlin in 1998.

Minsk has a digital metropolitan network ; waiting lists for telephones are long ; fixed line penetration is improving although rural areas continue to be undeserved ; intercity-Belarus has developed fibre-optic backbone system presently serving at least 13 major cities ( 1998 ); Belarus's fibre optics form synchronous digital hierarchy rings through other countries ' systems ; an inadequate analogue system remains operational.

There is a total of, ( double track ( as of 1998 )), of which are electrified, mainly at 3, 000 volts DC but with at 25 kV 50 Hz AC ( 2004 ) and all on standard gauge of.

The SIG is a privately held, not-for-profit trade association founded in September 1998.

Allan Huber " Bud " Selig (; born July 30, 1934 ) is the ninth and current Commissioner of Major League Baseball, having served in that capacity since 1992 as the acting commissioner, and as the official commissioner since 1998.

He is perhaps best known for his role as Will Robinson on the CBS science fiction television series Lost in Space ( 1965 – 1968 ), as well as for his role as ambassadorial aide Lennier in the syndicated series Babylon 5 ( 1994 – 1998 ).

However, after 1998, it began to describe the drink as Cuba Libre – literally translated as " Free Cuba " which is the original name of the drink and how it's mostly called in Latin America.

With the official cessation of violence by some of the major paramilitary organisations and the creation of the power-sharing executive at Stormont in Belfast under the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the Saville Inquiry's re-examination of the events of that day is widely hoped to provide a thorough account of the events of Bloody Sunday.

This is unchanged from the APG II of 2003, but different from the older APG system of 1998, which did not include Hanguanaceae.

The CIRA continues to oppose the Belfast Agreement and, unlike the Provisional IRA ( and the Real IRA in 1998 ), the CIRA has not announced a ceasefire or agreed to participate in weapons decommissioning — nor is there any evidence that it will.

" The minimum gate closed breaking strain of a carabiner conforming with EN 362: 2004 is nominally the same as that of EN 12275: 1998 at around 20 kN.

The campus Tree-Lighting Ceremony is a relatively new tradition at Columbia, inaugurated in 1998.