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Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1600 GMT, April 4

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Ten persons including a police officer were injured as a bicycle bomb targeted a police van in Kunduz city the capital of Kunduz province, 250 km north of Kabul on Saturday, a local official said. "An explosive device planted on a bicycle was detonated by remote control against a police car at around 09:00 a.m. local time, injuring 10 persons including a senior police officer Hajji Ghulam Farooq," police spokesman in the province Sayed Sarwar Hussaini told reporters here. (Afghanistan-Blast)

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HONG KONG -- Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said on Saturday that the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR)has left room for the SAR's constitutional development.

Speaking at an event marking the 25th anniversary of the promulgation of the Basic Law, Leung said Hong Kong's high degree of autonomy is an exceptional power granted by the central government, and it's the Basic Law that decides how big the power is.(Hong Kong-Basic Law)

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KUALA LUMPUR -- Six people including two government officials were killed in a civilian helicopter crash Saturday in Malaysia's southeastern suburbs of Kuala Lumpur, officials sources said.

Malaysian Home Minister Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi confirmed that parliament member and former special envoy to the United States Jamaluddin Jarjis was among the six people on board the helicopter which crashed in Semenyih, Kajang, about 40 kilometers southeast of Kuala Lumpur. (Malaysia-Helicopter Crash)

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MANILA -- At least 10,000 people, including foreign and domestic tourists, were evacuated ahead of the expected landfall of tropical storm Maysak, locally named as Chedeng, in northern Philippine province of Aurora, a senior government official said Saturday.

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Assistant Secretary Vilma Cabrera said that aside from Auroa, other local government units of the provinces of Isabela, Cagayan, and Quirino were also directed to enforce pre-emptive evacuation.(The Philippines-Storm) Endi