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Xinhua summary of Asia-Pacific stocks news at 1100 GMT, May 17

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Chinese stocks closed mixed Wednesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.27 percent to end the day at 3,104.44 points.

The smaller Shenzhen Component Index closed 0.16 percent lower at 10,030.11 points. The ChiNext Index, China's NASDAQ-style board of growth enterprises, ended 0.42 percent higher to close at 1,822.64 points.

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KUALA LUMPUR -- The Malaysian stock market ended lower here on Wednesday.

The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) was at 1,775.65 down 2.50 points or 0.14 percent, and the Emas was at 12,728.69 down 9.35 points or 0.07 percent.

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JAKARTA -- Indonesian shares closed lower by 31.50 points, or 0.56 percent, to a level of 5,615.49 on Wednesday.

Some 308,476 transaction were booked, involving 7.8 billion copies of share with total value of 6.8 trillion rupiah (about 510.5 million U.S. dollars).

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BANGKOK -- The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) index Wednesday moved up 1.94 points, or 0.13 percent, to close at 1,548.29 points.

Some 9.38 billion shares worth 50.63 billion baht (about 1.47 billion U.S. dollars) changed hands.

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SINGAPORE -- Singaporean stocks finished lower on Wednesday, with the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) down 3.61 points, or 0.11 percent, to close at 3,224.10.

A total of 2.28 billion shares changed hands with turnover of 1.30 billion Singapore dollars (934.97 million U.S. dollars). Decliners outnumbered gainers 234 to 214.

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HONG KONG -- Hong Kong stocks closed down 42.31 points, or 0.17 percent, to 25,293.63 points on Wednesday.

The benchmark Hang Seng Index traded between 25,245.44 and 25,374.95. Turnover totaled 69.60 billion Hong Kong dollars (about 8.94 billion U.S. dollars).

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HANOI -- Stock market index of Vietnam's capital Hanoi, HNX-Index, closed at 91.91 points on Wednesday, up 0.63 points or 0.69 percent against the previous trading session.

A total of over 62.589 million shares worth some 660.010 billion Vietnamese dong (some 29.2 million U.S. dollars) were traded at the Hanoi Stock Exchange on Wednesday, a decrease of 38.8 percent in volume and 25.4 percent in value against the previous trading session.

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HO CHI MINH CITY -- VN-Index, the stock market index of Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City bourse in south Vietnam, closed at 727.2 points on Wednesday, up 2.17 points, or 0.3 percent, against the previous trading day's closing session.

VN30-Index, the new benchmark index for the southern bourse, which tracks the 30 leading stocks by both market capitalization and liquidity, closed at 696.37 points, up 3.46 points, or 0.5 percent.

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SYDNEY -- The Australian share market fell drastically on Wednesday, reporting its single biggest fall in the past two months, with the banking sector causing the brunt of the losses.

At the market close, the S&P/ASX200 index was down 64.5 points, or 1.10 percent to end at 5,786.00 points, while the wider All Ordinaries index was also down 61.00 points, or 1.04 percent, to sit at 5,821.20 points at the close.

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TOKYO -- Tokyo stocks closed lower Wednesday as a comparatively firm yen against the U.S. dollar dented market sentiment.

The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average lost 104.94 points, or 0.53 percent, from Tuesday to close the day at 19,814.88.

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SEOUL -- Seoul shares ended lower on Wednesday.

The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) lost 2.25 points, or 0.10 percent, to settle at 2,293.08. Trading volume stood at 390.4 million shares worth 5.62 trillion won (5.02 billion U.S. dollars). Enditem