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Xinhua summary of Asia-Pacific stocks news at 1100 GMT, Feb. 9

Xinhua, February 9, 2015 Adjust font size:

Seoul shares ended lower on Monday.

The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) fell 8. 52 points, or 0.44 percent, to 1,947.00 at the close. Trading volume stood at 306.83 million shares worth 4.29 trillion won (3.9 billion U.S. dollars).

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TOKYO -- Tokyo stocks rose 0.36 percent on Monday as market sentiment was lifted by data showing a robust U.S. labor market, but gains were limited due to worries over Greece's fiscal future.

The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average was up 63.43 points, from Friday at 17,711.93.

The turnover was 2,175.2 billion yen (about 18.31 billion U.S. dollars).

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BEIJING -- Chinese stocks closed higher on Monday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.62 percent to end at 3,095. 12 points.

The Shenzhen Component Index gained 0.71 percent to end at 10, 868.14 points.

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SYDNEY -- The Australian share market's record broke on Monday with profit takers cashing in on recent gains in mining, financial, supermarket and mining stocks.

The market opened lower after a 12 day record upswing on opening, and by the Monday's close had not re-gathered momentum.

At the official market close, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 5.3 points, or 0.09 percent, at 5,814.9, while the broader All Ordinaries index was 4.6 points, or 0.08 percent lower.

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VIENTIANE -- The Lao stock market finished down 1.26 percent on Monday against the previous trading day.

The Lao Securities Exchange composite index decreased by 17.58 points to 1,394.74. A total of 12,858 shares worth about 65 million Lao kip (about 8,000 U.S. dollars) changed hands at the stock market.

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TAIPEI -- Taiwan's share prices closed lower on Monday with the weighted index down 34.68 points, or 0.36 percent, to close at 9, 421.5, according to news reaching here from Taipei.

Turnover totaled 65.4 billion new Taiwan dollars (about 2.07 billion U.S. dollars). Enditem

MANILA -- Philippine shares closed 0.70 percent higher on Monday.

The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index gained 54.39 points to 7782.57. The all-share index went up by 14.49 points, or 0.32 percent, to 4511.23.

Trading volume reached 2.84 billion shares worth 7.59 billion pesos (171.86 million U.S. dollars).

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HONG KONG -- Hong Kong stocks dropped 158.39 points, or 0.64 percent, to close on Monday at 24,521 points.

The benchmark Hang Seng Index traded between 24,657.87 and 24, 449.48. Turnover totaled 67.24 billion HK dollars (8.7 billion U.S. dollars).

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HANOI -- Stock market index of Vietnam's capital Hanoi, HNX- Index, closed at 83.33 points on Monday, down 0.54 points, or 0.65 percent, against the previous closing session.

A total of 40.674 million shares worth 456.349 billion Vietnamese dong (21.37 million U.S. dollars) were traded at the Hanoi Stock Exchange on Monday, an increase of 30.4 percent in volume and 7.22 percent in value against the previous closing session.

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HO CHI MINH CITY -- VN-Index, the stock market index of Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City bourse in southern Vietnam, closed at 573.55 points on Monday, down 0.58 points, or 0.1 percent, against last Friday's closing session.

About 71.316 million shares worth 1.232 trillion Vietnamese dong (VND) (57.45 million U.S. dollars) changed hands at the southern HCM City Stock Exchange. Prices of 79 stocks went up, 132 stocks fell down, while 71 stocks remained unchanged.

A total of 29.376 million shares worth 585.77 billion VND (27. 29 million U.S. dollars) were traded on Monday.

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SINGAPORE -- Singapore's stocks finished lower on Monday, with the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) down 13.34 points, or 0.39 percent, to close at 3,418.02.

A total of 1.08 billion shares changed hands with turnover of 1. 04 billion Singapore dollars (782 million U.S. dollars).

The STI index gained 24.78 points, or 0.73 percent, to close at 3,431.36 on Friday.

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JAKARTA -- Indonesian shares closed higher by 5.95 points, or 0. 11 percent, to a level of 5,348.47 on Monday.

Some 202,501 transactions were booked, involving 6.16 billion shares worth 5.82 trillion rupiah (about 459.18 million U.S. dollars).

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KUALA LUMPUR -- The Malaysian stock market ended mixed here on Monday.

The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) was at 1,811.58, down 1. 67 points or 0.09 percent, and the Emas was at 12,464.50, up 2.58 points or 0.02 percent.

Turnover declined to 2.12 billion shares valued at 1.94 billion ringgit Malaysia (544.48 million U.S. dollars), compared with 1.92 billion shares valued at 2.15 billion ringgit Malaysia (605.80 million U.S. dollars) last Friday.

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BANGKOK -- The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET)index moved down 11.86 points, or 0.73 percent, to close at 1,601.77 points on Monday.

Some 14.94 billion shares worth 58.93 billion baht (about 1.81 billion U.S. dollars) changed hands.

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MUMBAI -- Indian stocks market benchmark BSE Sensex shed nearly 500 points Monday on Delhi exit polls pointing to an AAP victory and muted earnings.

The 30-share index closed at 28,227.39, 490.52 points or 1.71 percent, down from previous close of 28,717.91 points. Endi