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Xinhua Asia-Pacific News Summary at 1000GMT, June 30

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The Japanese government on Tuesday affirmed a new guideline to enhance its surveillance and guard system over its remote islands, as well as disputed territories with its neighboring countries, in line with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's hawkish policies on territorial disputes.

The new guideline said that the government will continue to nationalize non-ownership remote islands and set up a system aiming at enhancing its surveillance over China's Diaoyu Islands, according to local report.(Japan-Surveillance-Disputed Islands)

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KABUL -- A suicide car bombing rocked near a diplomatic area in Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday afternoon, leaving casualties, an official source said.

"The attack occurred in front of Qazi Plaza, a shopping center, along Hamid Karzai International Air Port main road. The explosion has caused casualties. We cannot provide details on causalities," the source told Xinhua anonymously.

The Afghan Supreme Court and the United States embassy are located near the site of the explosion, which occurred at around 01:25 p.m. local time (GMT 0855).(Afghanistan-Blast-Casualties)

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WELLINGTON -- New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser on Tuesday moved to dispel concerns that the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations are intended to exclude China from regional trade.

Referring to "the very sensitive matter of U.S. and Chinese leadership in the early 21st century in international economic matters," Groser said the New Zealand government rejected completely the proposition that the TPP was some type of "China containment" strategy.(New Zealand-TPP-China)

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JAKARTA -- An official at Medan chapter of Indonesia's Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) said on Tuesday that the death toll from the crash of C-130 Hercules in the capital of North Sumatra province Medan may rise as people on board the ill-fated plane were more than 55.

"The death toll continues to rise, not only 30 as the plane's manifest document says 55 people on board," an official at Basarnas Medan chapter Hisar Turnip told Xinhua by phone. He feared that the death toll will continue to rise as the plane also hit several houses on the ground with many civilians were still inside those houses.(Indonesia-Plane Crash-Death Toll) Endi