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Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1030 GMT, April 5

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At least six people including four army personnel and two civilians were killed and 14 others injured in a suicide attack in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province on Wednesday morning, officials said.

Provincial government spokesperson Malik Muhammad Khan said that the bomber attacked a van carrying a census team in Bedian road of Lahore, the capital city of the province and no group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet. (Pakistan-Suicide Attack)

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TOKYO -- A regional chapter of Japan's Finance Ministry has been accused of breach of trust for allegedly selling a plot of land at a hugely discounted rate to nationalist school operator Moritomo Gakuen.

According to local media reports, Municipal Assembly member Makoto Kimura from Toyonaka City, Osaka, where the land is located, and local residents, filed the charges against the finance bureau.

The bureau was in charge of negotiating the contentious deal. (Japan-Nationalist School Scandal)

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SEOUL -- Supporters of impeached South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Wednesday formed a new political party, named Saenuri Party.

The former ruling Saenuri Party recently changed its party name into the Liberty Korea Party. The word Saenuri is known to have been adopted by Park when she was the party chief in early 2012. (South Korea-Party)

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TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday condemned the launch by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) of a ballistic missile that is believed to have fallen in the Sea of Japan.

Abe told a press briefing that the launch was a grave act of provocation from a security standpoint and was clearly in violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions. (Japan-DPRK-Missile launch)

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WELLINGTON -- Sixteen people have been confirmed as having typhoid in New Zealand's biggest city, health authorities said Wednesday, as criticism mounted over their handling of the outbreak.

Twelve people were currently in hospital in Auckland after some were discharged and two more people were described as "probable cases" of the potentially deadly disease. (New Zealand-Typhoid)

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VIENTIANE -- As many as 57 delegates from national disaster management offices of member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) gathered here Wednesday to seek ways for future cooperation in natural disaster assistance. (Laos-ASEAN-Natural disaster) Endit