Asia watch

By Ray ヒース／荒れ地
Updated: 00:00 BST, 22 January 2002

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JAPANESE chipmakers were 燃やすd by 警告s from the Japanese 半導体 協会 that 全世界の sales will 衝突，墜落 54% to 832bn yen (£4.37bn) in year to the end of March.

Even another 落ちる in the yen to three-year lows failed to 動機づける 買い手s of 輸出業者s, and the Nikkei 225 普通の／平均（する） 宙返り／暴落するd 2.2%, or 229.27 to 10,050.98, led by major electronics 構成要素 製造者s and 供給者s. US 財務省 長官 Paul O'Neill said in Tokyo that Washington had no 関心s about the 通貨's 拒絶する／低下する against the US dollar. Today it fell to 133.56 compared with an 夜通し level of 132.64.

恐れるs that the 中国 動きやすい phone 産業's 素晴らしい 拡大 is slowing 大打撃を与えるd the 地元で-引用するd 本土／大陸 操作者s in Hong Kong, where the Hang Seng 索引 fell 202.6 to 10,797.7. 警告s by Hong Kong 分析家s that the growth in 中国's 動きやすい phone subscriptions is coming to an end 追加するd to the gloom over 増加するd 競争 and 在庫／株s of 中国 Unicom and 中国 動きやすい slid 2.5%.

Bank 在庫／株s took over the running in South Korea after good results from Chohung Bank 増強するd 有罪の判決s that the once-struggling 部門 was 長，率いるing for a second year of 記録，記録的な／記録する 収入s. 伸び（る）s の中で 最高の，を越す 貸す人s reached 8% as 投資家s identified the 部門 as the next big growth area, and the Kospi 答える／応じるd with a 5.68-points 伸び（る） to 723.03.

Taiwanese 投資家s were 狼狽d at the numbers rung up by 地元の 動きやすい phone groups in their 企て，努力，提案s for 3G licences, and telecoms 在庫／株s fell by up to 1.5%. The 負わせるd 普通の／平均（する） was 救助（する）d by growing 楽観主義 about links between Hynix 半導体 and the US Micron 巨大（な）, and as 半導体素子 在庫／株s 伸び（る）d as much as 6% the 負わせるd 普通の／平均（する） rose 24.24 points to 5822.29.

Singapore's 海峡s Times 索引 fell 8.3 points to 1663.2. But banking 反対するs 決起大会／結集させるd on hopes that an 経済的な 上昇傾向 will 再構築する 収入s, while 科学（工学）技術 在庫／株s were led higher by Soundblaster computer card 製造者 Creative 科学（工学）技術, which rose almost 2% on hopes that 収入s 人物／姿／数字s this week will より勝る 予測s and that bbetter US sales will 追加する 勢い to the whole 部門.

Australian 資源s 在庫／株s 上がるd on a wave of rumours and rumours of rumours of more 引き継ぎ／買収 企て，努力，提案s in the 部門 now that the Normandy 採掘 戦う／戦い is over. A 1.2% 伸び（る） in the 資源s 索引 translated into a 78.8-points 前進する to 3421.5 in the All Ordinaries, which was その上の 上げるd by an end to the 最近の long slide in News Corp 株. 最高の，を越す 引き継ぎ／買収 tip was Newcrest 採掘, which jumped 4.5% on hopes that AngloGold would 企て，努力，提案 after losing the 戦う／戦い for Normandy. Other 資源s 在庫／株s, led by BHP Billiton, rose on the 推定する／予想するd 4.2% 削減 in Opec's oil 生産（高）. 取引-追跡（する）ing brought some 救済 for News Corp 在庫／株s after its 最近の 乱打するing on US 収入s worries and it rose 1.5%.

A 最近の 落ちる in Thai 在庫／株s was ended by a 削減（する） in 利益／興味 率s, which 解除するd bank 在庫／株s and took the SET 索引 up 2.92 to 317.30. Weak telecoms 在庫／株s pulled the 合成物 索引 in Kuala Lumpur 負かす／撃墜する 4.91 points to 691.03. The Jakarta 合成物 辛勝する／優位d up 2.37 to 428.52.

? Prices and indices in this section are 供給（する）d from さまざまな sources and calculated at different times and may not always match those 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d on the 場所／位置.