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Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1630 GMT, March 4

Xinhua, March 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

Economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC) pledged on Wednesday to constantly share their respective knowledge in the public-private partnership(PPP) program, which is seen helpful in boosting job-generating investments.

"We are delighted to see APEC economies come together to exchange knowledge in PPP," said Cosette Canilao, executive director of the Philippines' PPP Center, at the 4th APEC PPP Experts Advisory Council Meeting held at Tagaytay City in northern Philippine province of Cavite. (Philippines-APEC)

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SYDNEY -- Brazilian forward Ricardo Goulart Pereira finished his first hat-trick for Guangzhou Evergrande to lead the Chinese team to overcome defending champions Western Sydney Wanderers 3-2 in AFC Champions League Group H here on Wednesday.

The 15 million euro Brazilian international completed his hat- trick in 64 minutes, making Iacopo La Rocca's 57th minute equalizer and Romeo Castelen's injury time header all in vain. ( Australia-AFC Champions League)

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TOKYO -- A nine-year prison sentence for Makoto Hirata, a former senior member of the AUM Shinrikyo cult, was upheld by the Tokyo High Court Wednesday, for his involvement in incidents of abduction, bombing and firebombing, prior to the fatal 1995 sarin attack on the Tokyo subway system.

Hirata's defense team had appealed a lower court's ruling in March last year that had found him guilty of abducting and confining a city clerk, bombing an apartment and firebombing one of the cult's facilities, all in 1995 before the cult's devastating attack on the capital's subway system that killed 13 people. (Japan-Court-Cult)

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ISLAMABAD -- At least two people were killed as a trainer plane of Pakistan Air Force crashed in the country's northwestern district of Dera Ismail Khan on Wednesday, local media and officials said.

The spokesman of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) said the incident took place when a trainer plane "Mirage-V" of the PAF crashed in Perwa area of Dera Ismail Khan, a district in the country's northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. (Pakistan-Plane Crash) Endi