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Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 0600 GMT, Feb. 16

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CANBERRA -- Millions of people are expected to celebrate the Lunar New Year in Australia on Friday and Saturday.

Data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Friday revealed that Australia is home to more than 1.2 million people descendant from China. (Australia-Lunar New Year)

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ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan summoned Indian Deputy High Commissioner J.P. Singh and lodged formal protest over the recent ceasefire violations, resulting in the killing of a driver of a school van along the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed Kashmir region.

Director General at the South Asian Desk of the Foreign Ministry Mohammad Faisal, who summoned the Indian diplomat, condemned the "unprovoked ceasefire violations" in Battal Sector, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. (Pakistan-India-Killing)

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SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir -- A fierce gunfight between militants and Indian troops broke out Friday in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said.

The gunfight erupted at Palhallan-Pattan village in Baramulla district, about 32 km northwest of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir. (India-Indian-controlled Kashmir-Gunfight)

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CANBERRA -- Australia's opposition has revealed its plan for an independent education institute that it said would "take politics out of the classroom."

Tanya Plibersek, Deputy Leader of, and education spokesperson for, the Australian Labor Party (ALP), on Friday revealed the party's plan for the Evidence Institute for Schools, saying it would "put an end to decades of ideological battles about school education." (Australia-Opposition) Enditem

 

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