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

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Tokyo shares ended Friday slightly higher as investors ' optimism over the Japanese and U.S. economic outlooks took the upper hand over concerns on Greek bailout negotiations which weighed on eurozone stability.

The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average inched up 24.11 points, or 0. 12 percent, from Thursday at 20,407.08.

The broader Topix index of all First Section issues on the

The turnover was about 3,512.4 billion yen (about 28.43 billion U.S. dollars).

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BEIJING -- Chinese shares closed higher on Friday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.87 percent to finish at 5, 166.35 points.

The Shenzhen Component Index gained 1.17 percent to close at 18, 098.27 points.

Total turnover on the two bourses grew slightly to 1.97 trillion yuan (around 322 billion U.S. dollars) from 1.8 trillion yuan the previous day.

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HONG KONG -- Hong Kong stocks closed up 372.69 points, or 1.39 percent to 27,280.54 points on Friday.

The benchmark Hang Seng Index traded between 26,987.52 and 27, 356.51. Turnover totaled 131.53 billion HK dollars (about 16.97 billion U.S. dollars).

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SYDNEY -- Australia's Resource and financial sectors reversed Thursday's positive momentum, pulling the Australian market back to close slightly lower in Friday's session.

The Benchmark S&P/ASX 200 slipped 0.21 percent to 5,545.3, joined by the broader All Ordinaries index, falling 0.19 percent to 5,552.1.

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HO CHI MINH CITY -- VN-Index, the stock market index of Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City bourse in southern Vietnam, closed at 582.73 points on Friday, up 1.68 points, or 0.29 percent, against the previous trading day's closing session.

About 163.046 million shares worth 2.673 trillion Vietnamese dong (VND) (123.35 million U.S. dollars) changed hands at the southern HCM City Stock Exchange.

VN30-Index, the new benchmark index for the southern bourse, which tracks the 30 leading stocks by both market capitalization and liquidity, closed at 604.29 points, up 2.89 points, or 0.48 percent.

A total of 67.466 million shares worth 1.312 trillion VND (60. 55 million U.S. dollars) were traded on Friday.

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HANOI -- Stock market index of Vietnam's capital Hanoi, HNX- Index, closed at 87.95 points on Friday, up 0.22 points, or 0.26 percent, against the previous trading session.

A total of some 74.462 million shares worth around 934.423 billion Vietnamese dong (43.26 million U.S. dollars) were traded at the Hanoi Stock Exchange on Friday, an increase of 2.44 percent in volume and a decrease of 5.97 percent in value against the previous trading session.

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VIENTIANE -- The Lao stock market finished on Friday down 0.57 percent against the previous trading day.

The Lao Securities Exchange composite index decreased by 7.91 points to 1,374.88. A total of 67,875 shares worth about 474 million Lao kip (about 58,000 U.S. dollars) changed hands at the stock market.

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HONG KONG -- Taiwan's share prices closed down 0.01 percent on Friday with the weighted index down 0.56 points at 9,301.93, according to news reaching here from Taipei.

Turnover totaled 81.74 billion new Taiwan dollars (about 2.65 billion U.S. dollars) during the trading session.

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SINGAPORE -- Singapore stocks finished slightly higher on Friday, with the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) up 6.18 points, or 0.18 percent, to close at 3,353.85.

A total of 1.31 billion shares changed hands with turnover of 947.8 million Singapore dollars (701.7 million U.S. dollars).

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JAKARTA -- Indonesian shares closed higher by 7.01 points, or 0. 14 percent, to a level of 4,935.82 on Friday.

Some 181,269 transactions were booked, involving 4.61 billion shares worth 4.41 trillion rupiah (about 331.50 million U.S. dollars).

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KUALA LUMPUR -- The Malaysian stock market ended mixed here on Friday.

The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) was 1,734.37 down 0.39 of a point or 0.02 percent, and the Emas was at 12,022.47 up 6.73 points or 0.06 percent.

Turnover declined to 1.14 billion shares valued at 1.19 billion ringgit Malaysia (316.41 million U.S. dollars), compared with 1.42 billion shares valued at 1.71 billion ringgit Malaysia (456.37 million U.S. dollars) on Thursday.

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BANGKOK -- The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) index on Friday moved down 6.58 points, or 0.43 percent, to close at 1,508.23 points.

Some 7.65 billion shares worth 33.58 billion baht (about 1.00 billion U.S. dollars) changed hands.

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MUMBAI -- Indian stocks closed higher after having traded in a narrow range on Friday.

The benchmark S&P BSE Sensex closed at 26,425.30, 54.32 points or 0.21 percent up from previous close of 26,370.98. Endi