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Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1630 GMT, Jan. 11

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At least 59 people were killed and four others injured when a passenger bus hit an oil tanker in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on early Sunday morning, hospital sources said.

Dr Semi Jamali, Medical Superintendant of Jinnah Hospital where has rescue teams shifted the victims, said that they have received 59 bodies and four injured people at the hospital. (Pakistan-Road Accident-Toll)

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MANILA -- The Philippine government warned Sunday users of unmanned aircraft system (UAS) that they will face penalty during the trip in the country of Pope Francis on January 15 to 19.

Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) Deputy Director General for Operations Rodante Joya said that "no drone policy" violators may face fines of 300,000 (6657 U.S. Dollars) pesos to 500,000 (11095 U.S. Dollars) pesos per apprehension. (The Philippines-Drone Policy)

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JAKARTA -- Three Indonesian ships detected signals possibly from crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501 again near an area where an object believed to be the fuselage of the plane was located, an Indonesian official said on Sunday.

Operational director of the National Search and Rescue Agency, Suryadi B. Supriyadi, said the pings were detected 1 km east of the location where the broken tail was lifted from the sea off Indonesia's Central Kalimantan coast on Saturday. (Indonesia- AirAsia-Ping Signal)

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SEOUL -- Four people have been confirmed injured Sunday in a chemical-carrying ship explosion incident on South Korea's southeast coast, Yonhap News Agency reported.

The 1,553-ton vessel that moored in the country's southeast port city of Ulsan exploded at about 2:39 p.m. local time for unidentified reasons. (S. Korea-Ship Explosion)

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COLOMBO -- Sri Lanka's newly-elected president Maithripala Sirisena addressing the nation on Sunday said he would have a broad foreign policy to spur development.

Delivering his speech at the historically significant hill town of Kandy in central Sri Lanka, Sirisena who took oaths on Friday was keen to extend an olive branch to the international community. (Sri Lanka-President-Foreign Policy)

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HERAT, Afghanistan -- Two persons including the chief of intelligence agency of Shindand district in the western Herat province were injured as a roadside bomb struck their car on Sunday, police said. "A mine planted by militants struck the car of intelligence chief of Shindand district at noon, injuring him along with another," police spokesman Abdul Rauf Ahmadi told Xinhua. ( Afghanistan-Bomb Attack-Toll) Endi