Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 0600 GMT, Jan. 17

JAKARTA -- Indonesian President Joko Widodo replaced a minister and several senior officials in his cabinet, making it his third cabinet reshuffle in his administration since 2014.

The president replaced Social Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa with an executive of Golkar Party, Idrus Marham following Khofifah's candidacy to run in East java province's governor election. (Indonesia-Cabinet-Reshuffle)

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NEW DELHI -- India has said that it will soon deregister over 100,000 private companies in this country for failing to comply with various statutory compliances.

The latest decision is actually part of the Indian government's ongoing crackdown on corruption and black money, post-demonetisation in November 2016.

"The government is committed to curbing the menace of black money and deregistering these companies is taken in the interest of this country," a senior official said Wednesday. (India-Company-Deregisteration)

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CANBERRA -- The Australian government has lodged a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) over a dispute with Canada involving Australian wine products, the WTO said on Wednesday.

Australia's complaint, published by the WTO on Wednesday, claimed that the Canadian government had policies on wine sales that broke WTO rules. (Australia-Canada-Wine Dispute)

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SEOUL -- Working-level talks between South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) were underway Wednesday at the truce village of Panmunjom to discuss the DPRK's dispatch of athletes to the South Korea-hosted Winter Olympics, Seoul's unification ministry said.

The plenary session, which kicked off at about 10 a.m. local time (0100 GMT) as scheduled, ended some 45 minutes later. The vice ministerial-level dialogue was underway at the Peace House, a building controlled by South Korea in Panmunjom which straddles the heavily guarded inter-Korean land border. (S. Korea-DPRK-Talks) Enditem