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Xinhua summary of Asia-Pacific stocks news at 1100 GMT, Feb. 5

Xinhua, February 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

Seoul shares ended lower on Thursday.

The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) declined 9.95 points, or 0.51 percent, to 1,952.84 at the close. Trading volume stood at 391 million shares worth 4.23 trillion won (3.88 billion U.S. dollars).

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TOKYO -- Tokyo stocks fell 0.98 percent on Thursday after the European Central Bank tightened liquidity for Greek banks and crude oil prices' decline.

The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average was down 174.12 points from Wednesday at 17,504.62.

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SYDNEY -- The Australian share market continued its winning run for an 11th straight day on Thursday -- largely thanks to China's latest stimulus measure.

The People's Bank of China on Wednesday relaxed the amount of reserves commercial banks are required to hold, freeing up more than 100 billion U.S. dollars.

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TAIPEI -- Taiwan's share prices closed down 0.01 percent on Thursday with the weighted index down 1.87 points at 9,512.05.

Turnover totaled 72.98 billion new Taiwan dollars (about 2.32 billion U.S. dollars) during the trading session.

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SHANGHAI -- China's benchmark Shanghai Composite Index on the Shanghai Stock Exchange closed at 3,136.53 points Thursday, down 1. 18 percent.

Total turnover was 348.27 billion yuan (56.75 billion U.S. dollars).

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SHENZHEN -- The Shenzhen Component Index on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange closed at 11,065.58 points Thursday, down 0.46 percent.

Total turnover was 283.74 billion yuan (46.24 billion U.S. dollars).

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VIENTIANE -- The Lao stock market finished on Thursday up 0.89 percent against the previous trading day.

The Lao Securities Exchange composite index increased by 12.45 points to 1,406.74. A total of 15,741 shares worth about 103 million Lao kip (about 13,000 U.S. dollars) changed hands at the stock market.

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MANILA -- Philippine shares closed 0.76 percent lower on Thursday.

The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index dropped by 58.28 points to 7657.78. The all-share index went down by 17.08 points or 0.38 percent to 4464.20.

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HANOI -- Stock market index of Vietnam's capital Hanoi, HNX- Index, closed at 83.17 points on Thursday, down 0.02 points, or 0. 03 percent, against the previous trading session.

A total of 30.237 million shares worth 391.744 billion Vietnamese dong (18.57 million U.S. dollars) were traded at the Hanoi Stock Exchange on Thursday, a decrease of 15.38 percent in volume and 9.33 percent in value against the previous trading session.

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HONG KONG -- Hong Kong stocks closed up 84.73 points, or 0.35 percent, to 24,765.49 points on Thursday.

The benchmark Hang Seng Index traded between 24,642.81 and 25, 048.26. Turnover totaled 100.17 billion HK dollars (about 12.91 billion U.S. dollars).

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HO CHI MINH CITY -- VN-Index, the stock market index of Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City bourse in south Vietnam, closed at 567.17 points on Thursday, up 5.72 points or 1.02 percent against the previous trading day's closing session.

About 78.742 million shares worth 1.257 trillion Vietnamese dong (VND) (58.60 million U.S. dollars) changed hands at the southern HCM City Stock Exchange. Prices of 105 stocks went up, 92 stocks fell down, while 73 stocks remained unchanged.

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JAKARTA -- Indonesian shares closed lower by 35.39 points, or 0. 67 percent, to a level of 5,279.90 on Thursday.

Some 246,189 transactions were booked, involving 5.05 billion shares worth 6.88 trillion rupiah (about 543.90 million U.S. dollars).

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KUALA LUMPUR -- The Malaysian stock market ended higher here on Thursday.

The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) was at 1,803.21 up 0.19 of a point or 0.01 percent, and the Emas was at 12,395.87 up 1.47 points or 0.01 percent.

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SINGAPORE -- Singapore stocks finished lower on Thursday, with the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) down 10.99 points, or 0.32 percent, to close at 3,406.58.

A total of 1.01 billion shares changed hands with turnover of 1. 11 billion Singapore dollars (822 million U.S. dollars).

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DHAKA -- Bangladesh's DSEX (Dhaka Stock Exchange) Broad Index closed Thursday 4,685.04 points, up 16.98 points or about 0.36 percent from Wednesday.

Among a total of 306 issues traded, 134 registered gains and 120 incurred losses while 52 remained unchanged.

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BANGKOK -- The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET)index on Thursday moved up 8.11 points or 0.51 percent to close at 1,607.92 points.

Some 10.84 billion shares worth 54.38 billion baht (about 1.67 billion U.S. dollars) changed hands.

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COLOMBO -- Sri Lanka's Colombo stock exchange returned to its positive trend closing up by 47.25 points, 0.67 percent, to close at 7,047.31 on Thursday. Trading volume stood at 39.3 million shares worth 2.3 billion rupees (about 17.6 million U.S. dollars).

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MUMBAI -- Indian stocks market benchmark BSE Sensex closed lower on Thursday.

The 30-share index closed at 28, 850.97, 32.14 points or 0.11 percent down from previous close of 28883.11 points. Endi