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Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1000 GMT, April 13

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Indonesia's national search and rescue office said on Thursday that a cargo plane going missing on Wednesday had crashed into a mountain in Papua province.

A signal from the cargo plane had been detected and the crashed plane was located in the deep forest in remote Oksibil, spokesman of the national search and rescue office named only Marsudi told Xinhua by phone. (Indonesia-Plane Crash)

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NEW DELHI -- India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday won by a huge margin the by-poll held for a crucial assembly constituency in the national capital, decimating Delhi's ruling anti-graft Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

The by-election in west Delhi's Rajouri Garden assembly constituency, which is seen as a precursor to the civic body elections in Delhi slated for April 23, came as a blow for AAP which only got 10,000 votes.

BJP's winning candidate Majinder Singh Sirsa said that the results indicated that people had rejected AAP. "This is the end of AAP-led government in Delhi," he told the media. (India-Elections)

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YANGON -- Seven people were dead and one went missing as a motor vessel capsized in a Myanmar's river on Thursday before dawn, sources with the Fire Department said.

With 61 people on board, the motor vessel, which was on a pilgrimage tour from a village in Ann township, Rakhine state to Kyauktaw township, capsized in the Min Chaung river near May Lun township at 0315 a.m. local time as the fan of the vessel machine was jammed with fishing nets. (Myanmar-Motor Vessel)

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TOKYO -- Top negotiators from China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) met here Thursday on pushing forward trade in goods and services as well as investment at the 12th round of talks on a trilateral free trade agreement (FTA).

Wang Shouwen, the Chinese vice minister of commerce, said at the meeting that while the global economy is facing a slowdown and uncertain future, and world trade and investment are encountering impediments, China's economic growth in the past decade underscores the fact that global trade has played and will continue to play a key role in driving the world economy. (Japan-China-ROK-FTA) Endit