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Xinhua Asia-Pacific News Summary at 1600GMT, March 28

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Former President Park Geun-hye of South Korea on Tuesday decided to appear in a Seoul court to avoid arrest, which is being sought by prosecutors over a corruption scandal embroiling her.

The special investigation headquarters of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, tasked with the probe into the scandal, said Tuesday via text message that Park's legal team informed the prosecutors of Park's decision to appear in the Seoul Central District Court on Thursday.

(S.Korea-Park-Court)

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YANGON -- A Chinese medical team launched a rescue action plan at a children hospital in Yankin township in Myanmar's former capital of Yangon Tuesday to screen 50 congenital heart-disease children for them to be sent to Beijing for treatment.

The Chinese medical team arrived in Yangon from Beijing late on Monday on its first ever transnational love trip of its kind aimed at saving children in Myanmar suffering from such disease.

(Myanmar-China-Medical Team)

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GHAZNI, Afghanistan -- At least four Taliban militants have been killed and two others injured after clash erupted between security forces and armed insurgents in Gilan district of the eastern Ghazni province on Monday, an army spokesman in the province Hanif Rezai said Tuesday.

The clash, according to the official erupted in Kamaludin village of Gilan district Monday afternoon after the militants stormed a security checkpoint and the security personnel returned fire killing four insurgents on the spot and leaving two more injured.

(Afghanistan-Taliban-Clash)

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SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir -- At least three civilians and a militant were killed Tuesday in daylong clashes and gunfight respectively with government forces in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said.

The gunfight and clashes broke out at village Durbugh in Chadoora of Budgam district, about 22 km south of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir.

(Indian-Controlled Kashimar-Clashes-Death) Endit