31.   Samsung Electronics Co. and other computer chip manufacturers paced gains.

32.   Resource companies Rio Tinto and Broken Hill Proprietary Co. paced the gains.

33.   Semiconductor stocks also surged, pacing the gains in the Nasdaq Composite.

34.   Samsung Electronics Co. and banks paced gains.

35.   Shares of Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp. and Novell Inc. paced the gain.

36.   State-controlled utilities Telekom Malaysia Bhd. and Tenaga Nasional Bhd. paced the gains.

37.   Telecom Corp. paced the gains.

38.   Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and other computer-related companies paced the gains, accounting for virtually the entire increase of the main index.

39.   The bank said that investment banking gains were paced by corporate finance and private equity investment revenue.

40.   The gains were paced by SM Prime Holdings Inc., a shopping mall operator, and oil refiner Petron Corp.