Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1000 GMT, April 7

Three pandas born at a zoo in western Japan will be returned to China to breed, the zoo said Friday.

Officials at the Adventure World zoo amusement park in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, said that twin pandas aged six, and a four-year-old sibling, will be returned to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. (Japan-Panda)

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JAKARTA -- Indonesian police's anti-terror squad arrested three terrorist suspects in East Java province's city of Lamongan on Friday morning, a senior police officer said here.

A further investigation against them was underway at present following the operation of the Special Detachment (Densus) 88. (Indonesia-Terrorist Suspects)

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NEW DELHI -- Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Friday arrived in India on a four-day visit, officials said.

Hasina was received by India Prime Minister Narendra Modi at New Delhi airport.

During Hasina's visit, India and Bangladesh would sign a series of bilateral agreements including a civil nuclear energy accord. (India-Bangladesh-Visit)

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NEW DELHI -- A major mishap was averted at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport Friday after a passenger plane of India's national carrier Air India aborted take-off to avoid collision with an incoming flight of a private airlines on a converging runway, sources said.

The incident took place around noon when Air India's flight number 156 from Delhi to the western state of Goa was cleared for take-off from runway number 28, which was also allotted to a flight of low-cost IndiGo airlines coming from the eastern state of Ranchi, sources said.

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SEOUL -- A South Korean court on Friday held the first trial on Samsung heir over bribery charge involving impeached President Park Geun-hye and her longtime confidante Choi Soon-sil.

Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, dressed in the dark, gray suit and handcuffed, appeared in the Seoul Central District Court. (South Korea-Samsung-Trial) Enditem