In Asia today, the Hang Seng was recently up 124.14 points at 19,925.07, while
the Nikkei ended the morning session 89.52 points higher at 17,377.17.
New York Mercantile Exchange's main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for
delivery in May, was down 2 cents at $65.85 a barrel from $65.87 in late trading in
the US Friday.