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Xinhua summary of Asia-Pacific stocks news at 1100 GMT, March 12

Xinhua, March 12, 2015 Adjust font size:

Seoul shares ended lower on Thursday.

The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) declined 10.24 points, or 0.52 percent, to 1,970.59 at the close. Trading volume stood at 379.59 million shares worth 6.28 trillion won (5.57 billion U.S. dollars).

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SYDNEY -- The Australian share market improved by Thursday's close and ended three days of declines.

At the official market close, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index gained 57 points, or 0.98 percent, to 5,850.2 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index added 52.7 points, or 0.91 percent, to 5,816.

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TOKYO -- Tokyo shares ended sharply higher Thursday with its benchmark Nikkei stocks index hitting a nearly 15-year higher due to optimism toward the Japanese economy.

The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average skyrocketed 267.59 points, or 1.43 percent, from Wednesday at 18,991.11, after climbing as high as 19,008.13 points, the highest intraday level since April, 2000.

The turnover was about 2,522.6 billion yen (about 20.74 billion U.S. dollars).

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TAIPEI -- Taiwan's share prices closed up 0.76 percent Thursday with the weighted index up 72.82 points at 9,596.00, according to news reaching here from Taipei.

Turnover totaled 95.77 billion new Taiwan dollars (3.02 billion U.S. dollars) during the trading session.

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VIENTIANE -- The Lao stock market finished on Thursday up 2.37 percent against the previous trading day.

The Lao Securities Exchange composite index increased by 34.26 points to 1,479.37. A total of 88,089 shares worth about 633 million Lao kip (about 78,000 U.S. dollars) changed hands at the stock market.

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MANILA -- Philippine shares closed 0.63 percent higher on Thursday. The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index increased by 49.12 points to 7,839.82. The all-share index went up by 26.92 points,or 0.60 percent, to 4,550.54.

Trading volume reached 1.26 billion shares worth 8.80 billion pesos (198.46 million 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 588.53 points on Thursday, up 1.99 points, or 0.34 percent, against the previous trading day's closing session.

About 82.739 million shares worth 1.414 trillion Vietnamese dong (VND) (65.91 million U.S. dollars) changed hands at the southern HCM City Stock Exchange. Prices of 110 stocks went up, 85 stocks fell down, while 88 stocks remained unchanged.

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HONG KONG -- Hong Kong stocks moved up 79.99 points, or 0.34 percent, to close on Thursday at 23,797.96 points.

The benchmark Hang Seng Index traded between 23,677.06 and 23, 880.25. Turnover totaled 77.92 billion HK dollars (about 10.04 billion U.S. dollars).

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SHANGHAI -- Chinese stocks closed higher on Thursday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 1.78 percent to finish at 3, 349.32 points.

The Shenzhen Component Index went up 0.96 percent to close at 11,635.59 points.

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HANOI -- Stock market index of Vietnam's capital Hanoi, HNX- Index, closed at 85.87 points on Thursday, down 0.14 points, or 0. 17 percent, against the previous trading session.

A total of 30.424 million shares worth 439.058 billion Vietnamese dong (20.56 million U.S. dollars) were traded at the Hanoi Stock Exchange on Thursday, a decrease of 19.68 percent in volume and 24.3 percent in value against the previous trading session.

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SINGAPORE -- Singapore stocks finished lower on Thursday, with the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) down 4.99 points, or 0.15 percent, to close at 3,373.60.

A total of 1.27 billion shares changed hands with turnover of 1. 01 billion Singapore dollars (732.5 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 1,786.87 up 8.71 points or 0.49 percent, and the Emas was at 12,325.16 up 58.94 points or 0.48 percent.

Turnover declined to 2.95 billion shares valued at 2.19 billion ringgit Malaysia (593.17 million U.S. dollars), compared with 2.51 billion shares valued at 2.24 billion ringgit Malaysia (605.65 million U.S. dollars) on Wednesday.

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JAKARTA -- Indonesian shares closed higher by 20.27 points, or 0.37 percent, to a level of 5,439.83 on Thursday.

Some 211,123 transactions were booked, involving 5.77 billion shares worth 5.39 trillion rupiah (about 409.08 million U.S. dollars).

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BANGKOK -- The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) index Thursday moved up 0.50 points, or 0.03 percent to close at 1,544.34 points.

Some 8.93 billion shares worth 43.23 billion baht (about 1.32 billion U.S. dollars) changed hands.

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MUMBAI -- Indian stocks closed higher on Thursday, boosted by IMF's positive stance on India, ahead of the retail inflation and industrial output data due later on the same day.

The benchmark BSE Sensex closed at 28,930.41, 271.24 points or 0.95 percent up from previous close of 28,659.17 points. Endi