08:48     Closing Indices of the Stock Markets                                

                                                                              
        STOCK MARKET                        CLOSING AS AT 29/03/05            
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     1. HONG KONG (HSI)                     13411.88  (-185.22 )              
                                                                              
     2. BOMBAY (SENSEX)                      6367.86  (-142.88 )              
     3. JAKARTA (COMPOSITE)                  1070.300 (- 29.940)              
     4. JAPAN (NIKKEI-225)                  11599.82  (-192.48 )              
     5. KOREA (COMPOSITE)                     958.96  (- 18.74 )              
     6. KUALA LUMPUR (COMPOSITE)              881.87  (-  3.57 )              
     7. MANILA (COMPOSITE)                   1931.98  (- 54.97 )              
     8. NEW ZEALAND (NZSX 50)                3055.577 (- 19.390)              
     9. SHANGHAI (B SHARES)                    78.032 (+  0.257)              
    10. SHENZHEN (B SHARES)                   261.21  (+  1.32 )              
    11. SINGAPORE (STI)                      2127.71  (- 16.65 )              
    12. SYDNEY (ALL ORD)                     4091.9   (- 39.7  )              
    13. TAIWAN (WEIGHTED)                    5961.24  (- 87.50 )              
    14. THAILAND (SET)                        676.91  (-  6.07 )              
                                                                              
    15. NEW YORK (S&P-500)                   1165.36  (-  8.92 )              
    16. TORONTO (TSE 300)                    9395.42  (- 86.95 )              
    17. U.K. (MSCI UK)                       1486.90  (-  1.35 )              
    18. U.S.A. (MSCI USA)                    1095.25  (-  8.15 )              
    19. U.S.A. (NASDAQ 100)                  1464.34  (-  8.37 )              
    20. U.S.A. (NASDAQ COMPOSITE)            1973.88  (- 18.64 )