RUBBER-TOCOM continues to fall over fears of slowing global economy

BEIJING, March 25 (Reuters) -

* Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) futures, which set the tone for rubber prices in Southeast Asia, continued to fall over worries on slowing global economy

* The benchmark Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) rubber contract for August delivery finished 5.9 yen ($0.0536) lower at 183.9 yen per kg

* The most-active rubber contract on the Shanghai futures exchange for May delivery fell 355 yuan ($52.91) to finish at 11,500 yuan per tonne

* The drop also came as Thailand, the world's top natural rubber producer, was expected to delay the start of planned curbs on exports of the commodity by over a month

* The U.S. dollar was quoted around 110.21 yen, compared with around 109.91 yen on Friday afternoon

* Oil prices slipped on Monday, with concerns of a sharp economic slowdown outweighing supply disruptions from OPEC's production cutbacks and from U.S. sanctions on Iran and Venezuela.

* Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock average was down 3.01 percent

* TOCOM's technically specified rubber (TSR) 20 futures contract for September delivery closed down 4.6 yen at 162.9 yen per kg

* The front-month rubber contract on Singapore's SICOM exchange for April delivery last traded at 146.4 U.S. cents per kg, down 1.2 percent. ($1 = 110.1500 yen) ($1 = 6.7089 Chinese yuan) (Reporting by Hallie Gu and Tom Daly; Editing by Gopakumar Warrier)