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Xinhua summary of Asia-Pacific stocks news at 1100 GMT, Feb. 22

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BEIJING -- Chinese stocks closed higher Thursday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 2.17 percent, at 3,268.56 points.

The Shenzhen Component Index closed 2.18 percent higher at 10,658.94 points.

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PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia's stocks finished lower on Thursday, with the Cambodia Securities Exchange Index down 0.65 point, or 0.19 percent, to close at 341.32 points.

A total of 1,540 shares worth 5.38 million riel (1,340 U.S. dollars) were traded.

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TOKYO -- Tokyo stocks closed lower Thursday as the minutes of the Federal Reserve's January meeting suggesting more interest rate hikes this year reignited concerns about the effects of higher U.S. Treasury yields.

The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average dropped 234.37 points, or 1.07 percent, from Wednesday to close the day at 21,736.44.

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SEOUL -- Seoul shares ended lower Thursday.

The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) declined 15.37 points, or 0.63 percent, to settle at 2,414.28. Trading volume stood at 344.87 million shares worth 4.85 trillion won (4.48 billion U.S. dollars).

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VIENTIANE -- The Lao stock market closed on Thursday down 0.75 percent compared to the previous trading day.

The Lao Securities Exchange composite index decreased by 7.11 points to reach 939.22 points after closing.

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MANILA -- Philippine shares closed 1.14 percent lower on Thursday.

The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index decreased by 98.08 points to 8,515.57. The all-share index went down by 34.98 points, or 0.68 percent, to 5,087.19.

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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 1,076.03 points on Thursday, down 11.12 points, or 1.02 percent, against the previous trading day's closing session.

A total of 91.287 million shares worth 3.875 trillion Vietnamese dong (VND)(172.75 million U.S. dollars) were traded on Thursday.

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HANOI -- Stock market index of Vietnam's capital Hanoi, HNX-Index, closed at 124.7 points on Thursday, down 1.15 points or 0.92 percent against the previous trading session.

About 52.660 million shares worth some 855.307 billion Vietnamese dong (some 38.1 million U.S. dollars) were traded at the Hanoi Stock Exchange on Thursday, an increase of 3.6 percent in volume, but a decrease of 1.8 percent in value against the previous trading session.

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HONG KONG -- Hong Kong stocks closed down 466.210 points, or 1.48 percent, to 30,965.68 points on Thursday.

The benchmark Hang Seng Index traded between 30,930.1 and 31,195.27. Turnover totaled 120.60 billion Hong Kong dollars (about 15.41 billion U.S. dollars).

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

The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) was at 1,855.07 down 3.10 points or 0.17 percent, and the Emas was at 13,276.76 down 5.52 points or 0.04 percent.

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DHAKA -- Bangladesh's DSE (Dhaka Stock Exchange) Broad Index closed Thursday at 5,906 points, down 2 points from Tuesday's finish.

Among a total of 331 issues traded, 113 registered gains and 161 incurred losses while 57 remained unchanged.

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SINGAPORE -- Singaporean stocks closed down on Thursday, with the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) down 0.79 percent or 27.77 points to close at 3,488.46.

A total of 1.83 billion shares changed hands with a turnover of 1.73 billion Singapore dollars (about 1.31 billion U.S. dollars). Losers outnumbered gainers by 331 to 121.

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MUMBAI -- Indian markets closed flat in a negative note Thursday after trading in the red for the greater part of the day.

The benchmark S&P BSE Sensex closed at 33,819.50, 25.36 points or 0.07 percent down compared to its previous close at 33,844.86.

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JAKARTA -- Indonesian shares closed lower by 50.33 points, or 0.76 percent, to a level of 6,593.06 on Thursday.

Some 389,706 transactions were booked, involving 13.6 billion copies of shares with a value of 7.4 trillion rupiah (about 540.8 million U.S. dollars).

Gainers led losers 135 to 224 with 120 remained stagnant. Enditem

 

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