S'pore oil products steady, gas oil active SINGAPORE (Reuter): Singapore oil products prices were steady yesterday with activity again centering on gas oil, traders said. Three deals were heard traded for end-July delivery at wide ranges. Two 150,000-barrel parcels were sold for July 26-30 lifting at US$25.25 per barrel fob Singapore, and another 150,000 barrels were sold at $25.70 for July 23-27 lifting. But some traders said current levels of over $25.50 seemed overpriced.

Six sports added to SEA Games' second category JAKARTA (JP): Six Southeast Asian Games' sports were upgraded from its third category to its second category yesterday. A two-day SEA Games Federation council meeting, attended by nine delegates from eight countries, decided that 10-pin bowling, golf, karate, sepak takraw, soft tennis and wushu be grouped with its second category sports.

Legislators urge govt to stop timber brokers JAKARTA (JP): Members of the House of Representatives yesterday called on the government to take stricter action against timber brokers who design plans to intentionally buy illegally-felled timber. Jasman Ismail, a member of the House's Commission IV for forestry and agricultural affairs said the problem of timber theft will never be solved unless the government breaks the vicious circle which links brokers to timber thieves.