SHARES STRONGLY UP/DOWN this week 26/12/05 (Master RSI)

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Max Petroleum Plc (AIM: MXP), an oil and gas exploration and development company
with an initial focus on Kazakhstan, today announces that it has conditionally
placed 37,650,000 ordinary shares of 0.01p ('the Placing Shares') at a price of
100 pence per share.

The proceeds of the Placing will fund an acquisition for an oil and gas
exploration asset in Kazakhstan, further details of which will be announced in
due course.
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Tescom Software Systems Testing Ltd. (the 'Company')
Share buyback

Following the announcement on 18 July 2005 that the Board of Tescom had approved
a share buyback of Ordinary Shares in the Company, the Company announces today
that it made on market purchases of 5,800 Ordinary Shares at NIS 6.79 per share
on 26 December 2005 (to be held as treasury shares as defined in Israeli law).

The Company now holds 301,526 Ordinary Shares in treasury and the total number
of Ordinary Shares in issue less the total number of Ordinary Shares held in
treasury following the purchase and non-cancellation of such Ordinary Shares is
15,867,701 Ordinary Shares.
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LONDON (AFX) - Kuju PLC, an interactive games software developer, said its pretax losses widened in the six months to end September after the loss of one title and the disposal of the loss-making Kuju Wireless Publishing division.

Pretax losses grew to 517,873 stg from 174,102 stg in the year-earlier period.

The company previously warned that the loss of the 'George A Romero presents City of the Dead' title caused by HIP Interactive ceasing to trade in July would impact negatively. The loss of the title cost Kuju 308,000 stg, it said today, adding that it continues to seek alternative publishers to develop the title.

Group sales rose to 4.25 mln stg from 3.14 mln but the cost of sales also jumped to 4.16 mln stg from 2.80 mln.

'In general we believe that market conditions and opportunities for the group's PC & console studios are continuing to improve however our view of the market remains cautious and completing deals can still take time,' said chairman Dominic Wheatley.