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To: jach who wrote (29912)	12/15/1998 8:04:00 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

TOP ASIAN NEWS from The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition. Dec. 15, 1998 The major Asian-Pacific stock markets closed mixed Tuesday. Equities fell for the fourth straight day in Tokyo, while the slide in South Korean interest rates continued to attract funds to Seoul's market, sending the main index up 3.7%. __________________________________ Market Indexes Australia All Ordinaries 2687.90 + 0.43% China DJ China 88 126.55 - 0.14% Hong Kong Hang Seng 9952.84 + 1.30% Japan Nikkei 14011.19 - 0.71% Taiwan Weighted 6936.82 + 0.69% FOR MORE NEWS ON ASIAN MARKETS, see: interactive.wsj.com __________________________________ AND IN OTHER NEWS... China's military faces a deadline Tuesday to comply with the leadership's order that it withdraw from the many commercial enterprises it controls. * * * Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and opposition Liberal Party reached agreement on some key areas of economic policy, bringing the two sides closer to forming a coalition. * * * Alphatec's creditors rejected a plan to revive the debt-laden chip assembler, forcing the ouster of its court-appointed planners that had formulated the rescue plan. The move is a blow to investors' hopes for progress in Thailand's debt restructuring. FOR MORE NEWS ON ASIA, see: interactive.wsj.com