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Xinhua summary of Asia-Pacific stocks news at 1100 GMT, May 6

Xinhua, May 6, 2015 Adjust font size:

Seoul shares ended lower on Wednesday.

The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) declined 27.65 points, or 1.3 percent, to 2,104.58 at the close. Trading volume stood at 424.2 million shares worth 5.6 trillion won (5.2 billion U.S. dollars).

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BEIJING -- Chinese shares tumbled on Wednesday,with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down by 1.62 percent to finish at 4,229.27 points.

The Shenzhen Component Index fell 0.68 percent to close at 14, 136.17 points.

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MANILA -- Philippine shares closed 0.58 percent lower on Wednesday.

The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index decreased by 45. 57 points to 7873.64. The all-share index went down by 10.25 points, or 0.23 percent, to 4541.98.

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TAIPEI -- Taiwan's share prices closed down 0.1 percent on Wednesday with the weighted index down 1.93 points at 9,818.20.

Turnover totaled 96.36 billion new Taiwan dollars (about 3.14 billion U.S. dollars) during the trading session.

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VIENTIANE -- The Lao stock market finished on Wednesday down 0. 06 percent against the previous trading day.

The Lao Securities Exchange composite index decreased by 0.88 points to 1,461.31. A total of 144,185 shares worth about 1 billion Lao kip (about 125,000 U.S. dollars) changed hands at the stock market.

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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 549.3 points on Wednesday, down 3.35 points, or 0.61 percent, against the previous trading day's closing session.

About 89.293 million shares worth 1.448 trillion Vietnamese dong (VND) (67.50 million U.S. dollars) changed hands at the southern HCM City Stock Exchange. Prices of 62 stocks went up, 168 stocks fell down while 56 stocks remained unchanged.

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HONG KONG -- Hong Kong stocks closed down 114.63 points, or 0. 41 percent to 27,640.91 points on Wednesday.

The benchmark Hang Seng Index traded between 27,570.41 and 28, 054.68. Turnover totaled 161.32 billion HK dollars (about 20.79 billion U.S. dollars).

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HANOI -- Stock market index of Vietnam's capital Hanoi, HNX- Index, closed at 79.38 points on Wednesday, down 0.85 points, or 1. 06 percent, against the previous trading session.

A total of 50.208 million shares worth 577.623 billion Vietnamese dong (27.05 million U.S. dollars) were traded at the Hanoi Stock Exchange on Wednesday, an increase of 22.8 percent in volume and 36.3 percent in value against the previous trading session.

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SINGAPORE -- Singapore stocks finished lower on Wednesday, with the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) down 11.40 points, or 0.33 percent, to close at 3,459.79.

A total of 1.31 billion shares changed hands with turnover of 1. 23 billion Singapore dollars (924.8 million U.S. dollars).

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JAKARTA -- Indonesian shares closed higher by 24.64 points, or 0.48 percent, to a level of 5,1184.95 on Wednesday.

Some 219,573 transactions were booked, involving 5.45 billion shares worth 6.68 trillion rupiah (about 512.35 million U.S. dollars).

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KUALA LUMPUR -- The Malaysian stock market ended lower here on Wednesday. The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) was at 1,820.97, down 6.45 points or 0.35 percent, and the Emas was at 12,554.60, down 34.80 points, or 0.28 percent.

There were 353 gainers, 453 losers and 313 counters traded unchanged.

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DHAKA -- Bangladesh's DSE (Dhaka Stock Exchange)Broad Index closed Wednesday at 4,089.88 points, up 75.51 points or about 1.88 percent from Tuesday's finish.

Among a total of 311 issues traded, 216 registered gains and 37 incurred losses while 13 remained unchanged.

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BANGKOK -- The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET)index Wednesday moved down 6.86 points, or 0.45 percent to close at 1,519.88 points.

Some 7.95 billion shares worth 40.88 billion baht (about 1.23 billion U.S. dollars) changed hands.

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MUMBAI -- Indian stocks closed lower Wednesday with the BSE benchmark index Sensex at 26,717.37, 722.77 points or 2.63 percent down from the previous close of 27,440.14 points.

The Sensex remained volatile over the past few sessions due to fading optimism over economic policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, one year after he came to power. Endi