Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1600 GMT, July 1

Over 30 people were killed and several others missing as torrential rains and landslides hit the northern Indian state Uttarakhand early Friday, said officials.

The government was rushing rescue teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) to the hilly state, said Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh, after cloudburst and heavy rains caused havoc in Pithoragarh and Chamoli districts of the state. (India-Torrential Rains)

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TOKYO -- A group of Korean residents in Osaka filed a complaint against hate speech targeting the ethnic Koreans on the Internet on Friday, the first day when an ordinance to deter racist propaganda came into effect in the city.

The ordinance, the first of its kind enforced by a major city in Japan, defines hate speech as communication which defames and aims to exclude an individual or a group from society based on race or ethnicity, and incites hatred and a sense of discrimination toward them. (Japan-Hate Speech)

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SEOUL -- The sixth case of Zika virus infection in South Korea has been found in a 28-year-old woman who recently came back from Dominica, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said on Friday.

The woman, who had stayed in the Central American country from June 2014, came back to South Korea on June 23 via the United States and China's Taiwan, according to the KCDC. (South Korea-Zika)

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MANILA -- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte wanted a "conversation" with China on the South China Sea in a bid to work out a "win-win relationship" with the country, presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said on Friday.

"Basically he's being friendly toward China. I think it's an indication on how he wants to handle the relationship, not to be adversarial but to really work out a relationship that will be win-win for both," Abella said in an interview with the television ANC. (Philippines-China-Ties) Enditem