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Xinhua Asia-Pacific News Summary at 1600 GMT, Jan. 9

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ISLAMABAD -- At least six people were killed and 17 others injured in a blast targeting a police vehicle in Quetta, captial of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, on Tuesday evening, local media reported.

The incident happened about 300 meters away from provincial assembly building of Balochistan, and the targeted policemen were deployed at the security of the assembly, Samaa News reported. (Pakistan-Blast)

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FAIZABAD, Afghanistan -- Up to 40 Taliban militants have given up fighting amid ongoing military operations in Afghanistan's northern Badakhshan province, provincial governor's spokesman Nik Mohammed Nazari said on Tuesday.

Taliban militants who are in control of parts of Argu, Baharak and Wardoj districts of Badakhshan province have not commented on the report. (Afghanistan-Taliban militants)

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PHNOM PENH -- The 6th Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Senior Officials' Meeting was held here on Tuesday, with high-level officials from the six Lancang-Mekong countries finalizing the Five-year Action Plan and the Phnom Penh Declaration for Wednesday's 2nd LMC Leaders' Meeting.

Co-chair of the meeting Huang Xilian, deputy director-general of the Asian Affairs Department of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, told Xinhua that the Senior Officials' Meeting discussed the significant progress the LMC mechanism has been made since its establishment only less than two years ago. (Cambodia-Lancang-Mekong Cooperation)

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TOKYO -- Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Kono said on Tuesday that Japan cannot accept South Korea's new policy position on a deal struck in 2015 between the two countries over Japan's wartime conscription of "comfort women."

Seoul has said that it will not seek to renegotiate the deal but will plan to match the 1 billion yen (8.9 million U.S. dollars) paid by the Japanese government under the deal, with South Korea's Foreign Minister Kang Kyung Wha saying that it will decide how to use Japan's payoff. (Japan-Comfort women) Enditem

 

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