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Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1000 GMT, March 5

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Sixteen people were injured from petrol bomb attacks on 18 vehicles in three districts of Bangladesh overnight in the ongoing blockade and strike.

Buses and trucks were burnt overnight and in the early hours of Thursday, the fifth day of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party(BNP)- led 20 party combine's strikes this week. (Bangladesh-Bomb Attack)

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DHAKA -- Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman has filed a review petition with the country's apex court against its verdict that upheld his death penalty for war crimes in 1971.

His counsel Shishir Munir filed the review petition on Thursday. (Bangladesh-Convict-Petition)

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YANGON, March 5 (Xinhua) -- About 200 students from the main striking student group involving monks continued to stage sit-in protest on issue of amendment of Myanmar's National Education Law in Letpadan, Bago region Wednesday, witnesses said Thursday.

The sit-in protest was staged near a monastery compound in defiance of an ultimatum order of the township administration to halt protest within six hours. (Myanmar-Students-Protest)

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NEW DELHI -- An Indian Air Force combat aircraft Thursday crashed in a village near the northern state of Haryana's town of Panipat, a senior defense official said, adding that the pilot safely ejected just before the incident. (India-Aircraft-Incident) Endi