Xinhua Asia-Pacific News Summary at 0600GMT, Feb. 27

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott dismissed speculation about another challenge to his leadership on Friday after many of his fellow Liberal politicians claimed he did not have the numbers to rule the party.

Ministers have told the local media they believed Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull now had the numbers to win a challenge and should use them. A motion to vote for a change of prime minister was held earlier this month and was defeated 39 to 61. (Australia-PM-Rumor)

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SEOUL -- Four people were killed and one was injured in a South Korean air-rifle shooting rampage in Hwaseong, Gyeonggy Province, Yonhap News Agency reported Friday.

Police received an official report at about 9:30 a.m. that one person shot at relatives with an air rifle in a single-family house in Hwaseong, southwest of capital Seoul. (S.Korea-Shooting- Casualty)

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MACAO -- A ferry carrying 19 people capsized Friday off China's Macao, and four people have been rescued, the customs said.

The sunken ferry is a smuggling boat, with one captain, two sailors and 16 other stowaways on board, according to the customs.

The four rescued are all stowaways, while other 15 people are still missing, said the customs.

(Macao-Ferry-Rescue)

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SEOUL -- South Korea on Friday offered to the Democratic People 's Republic of Korea holding a dialogue on the Kaesong Industrial complex after Pyongyang's unilateral decision to raise wages for workers.

Unification Ministry spokesman Lim Byeong-cheol told a press briefing that the ministry proposed to the DPRK holding talks on March 13 about the management of the inter-Korean factory park in the DPRK's border city of Kaesong. (S.Korea-DPRK-Wages) Endi