Oil in Asia crawls near $34 as OPEC talks output SINGAPORE (Reuters): Oil in Asia crawled towards a near decade high above $34 a barrel on Wednesday as Saudi Arabia and other OPEC members talked of an imminent output hike. Benchmark New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) October crude futures traded up 14 cents at $33.97 a barrel by 0722 GMT, adding to its 45-cent gain on Tuesday. The market settled at a lower $33.93 a barrel on Tuesday, after peaking at $34.10 briefly during intra-day trade.

Governor opens new garbage station in Sunter, N. Jakarta JAKARTA (JP): In an attempt to reduce the burden on the Bantar Gebang garbage dump in Bekasi, Governor Sutiyoso officially opened an intermediate garbage station in Sunter, North Jakarta, on Wednesday. The intermediate station will compress all waste from the western part of the city before it is transferred to the city- owned dump in Bekasi.

Fujitsu wins high-speed telecoms cable contract TOKYO (AFP): Japan's biggest computer company Fujitsu Ltd. said Wednesday it had won a contract to build a US$645-million high-speed telecommunications cable linking Singapore, Jakarta and Sydney. New Zealand-based Nava Networks had contracted Fujitsu to build the 9,000-kilometer (5,625-mile) undersea fiber-optic cable by July 2002, the Japanese firm said in a statement.