Xinhua summary of Asia Pacific stocks news at 1100GMT, May 25
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Tokyo shares ended higher on Monday with its benchmark Nikkei stocks rising for the 7th straight day and hitting a fresh 15-year high on a weaker yen. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average jumped 149.36 points, or 0.74 percent, to 20,413.77, after briefly hitting 20,417.77, its highest level on an intraday basis since April 2000.
The turnover was about 2,146.7 billion yen (about 17.65 billion U.S. dollars).
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SYDNEY -- Australian stocks closed stronger amid a flurry of mergers and acquisitions.
The benchmark ASX/S&P 200 rose 1 percent at 5721.5 points at the close, with the broader All Ordinaries up 0.91 percent at 5719. 9 points.
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MANILA -- Philippine shares closed 0.62 percent lower on Monday. The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index decreased by 48.64 points to 7761.53. The all-share index went down by 26.72 points, or 0.59 percent, to 4466.82.
Trading volume reached 683.58 million shares worth 6.93 billion pesos (155.70 million U.S. dollars).
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VIENTIANE -- The Lao stock market finished on Monday up 0.62 percent against the previous trading day.
The Lao Securities Exchange composite index increased by 8.79 points to 1,419.89. A total of 3,450 shares worth about 25 million Lao kip (about 3,000 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 563 points on Monday, up 1.18 points, or 0.21 percent, against last Friday's closing session.
About 108.202 million shares worth 1.554 trillion Vietnamese dong (VND) (71.73 million U.S. dollars) changed hands at the southern HCM City Stock Exchange. Prices of 130 stocks went up, 76 stocks fell down, while 66 stocks remained unchanged.
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HANOI -- Stock market index of Vietnam's capital Hanoi, HNX- Index, closed at 80.25 points on Monday, up 0.7 points, or 0.88 percent, against the previous closing session.
A total of 46.214 million shares worth 519.108 billion Vietnamese dong (24.03 million U.S. dollars) were traded at the Hanoi Stock Exchange on Monday, a decrease of 19.94 percent in volume and 19.45 percent in value against the previous closing session.
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SHANGHAI -- Chinese shares extended the bull run on Monday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index surging 3.35 percent, or 156.2 points, to finish at 4,813.8 points, the highest level in over seven years.
The Shenzhen Component Index gained 1.9 percent, or 305.26 points, to close at 16,351.06 points.
Total turnover on the two bourses came in at a record 2.03 trillion yuan (332.2 billion U.S. dollars).
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SINGAPORE -- Singapore stocks finished higher on Monday, with the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) up 10.67 points, or 0.31 percent, to close at 3,460.85.
A total of 1.78 billion shares changed hands with turnover of 596 million Singapore dollars (522.8 million U.S. dollars).
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JAKARTA -- Indonesian shares closed lower by 26.79 points, or 0. 50 percent, to a level of 5,288.36 on Monday.
Some 166,677 transactions were booked, involving 4.75 billion shares worth 4.10 trillion rupiah (about 311.09 million U.S. dollars).
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BANGKOK -- The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET)index Monday moved down 15.70 points, or 1.03 percent, to close at 1,508.16 points.
Some 5.61 billion shares worth 27.73 billion baht (about 830 million U.S. dollars) changed hands. Endi