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Xinhua summary of Asia-Pacific stocks news at 1100 GMT, March 2

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BEIJING -- Chinese stocks closed lower on Friday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.59 percent, at 3,254.53 points.

The Shenzhen Component Index closed 0.79 percent lower at 10,856.25 points. The ChiNext Index, which tracks China's NASDAQ-style board of growth enterprises, lost 1.00 percent to close at 1,772.01 points.

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JAKARTA -- Indonesian shares closed lower by 23.73 points, or 0.36 percent, to a level of 6,582.31 on Friday.

Some 355,116 transactions were booked, involving 10 billion copies of shares with a value of 7.8 trillion rupiah (about 567 million U.S. dollars).

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

The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) was at 1,856.07 down 4.79 points or 0.26 percent, and the Emas was at 13,173.95 down 63.30 points or 0.48 percent.

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SINGAPORE -- Singaporean stocks closed down on Friday, with the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) went down 0.99 percent, or 34.65 points, to close at 3,479.20.

A total of 2.29 billion shares changed hands with a turnover of 1.28 billion Singaporean dollars (about 972.9 million U.S. dollars). Losers outnumbered gainers by 295 to 170.

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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 1,121.21 points on Friday, up 1.08 points, or 0.1 percent, against the previous trading day's closing session.

About 210.069 million shares worth 6.631 trillion Vietnamese dong (VND) (295.16 million U.S. dollars) changed hands at the southern HCM City Stock Exchange. Prices of 148 stocks went up, 126 stocks fell down, while 60 stocks remained unchanged.

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HANOI -- Stock market index of Vietnam's capital Hanoi, HNX-Index, closed at 128.25 points on Friday, up 1.15 points or 0.91 percent against the previous trading session.

About 54.622 million shares worth some 1.002 trillion Vietnamese dong (some 44.6 million U.S. dollars) were traded at the Hanoi Stock Exchange on Friday, a decrease of 36 percent in volume and 25 percent in value against the previous trading session.

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HONG KONG -- Hong Kong stocks closed down 460.80 points, or 1.48 percent, to 30,583.449 points on Friday.

The benchmark Hang Seng Index traded between 30,477.949 and 30,670.941. Turnover totaled 126 billion Hong Kong dollars (about 16.09 billion U.S. dollars).

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PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia's stocks finished lower on Friday, with the Cambodia Securities Exchange Index down 1.36 points, or 0.4 percent, to close at 334.54.

A total of 3,210 shares worth 11.8 million riel (2,956 U.S. dollars) were traded.

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VIENTIANE -- The Lao stock market closed on Friday down 1.67 percent compared to the previous trading day.

The Lao Securities Exchange composite index decreased by 15.85 points to reach 934.26 points after closing.

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MANILA -- Philippine shares closed 0.09 percent lower on Friday.

The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index decreased by 7.20 points to 8,458.57. The all-share index went down by 12.29 points, or 0.24 percent, to 5,065.34.

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SEOUL -- Seoul shares ended lower Friday.

The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) declined 25.2 points, or 1.04 percent, to settle at 2,402.16. Trading volume stood at 313.21 million shares worth 5.92 trillion won (5.48 billion U.S. dollars).

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TOKYO -- Tokyo stocks closed sharply lower Friday, with the benchmark Nikkei stock index closing at a two-week low after U.S President Donald Trump's tariff policy on steel and aluminum imports triggered a global sell-off.

The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average lost 542.83 points, or 2.50 percent, from Thursday to close the day at 21,181.64.

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SYDNEY -- The Australian share market ended lower on Friday, with losses clocked by sectors across the board following announcements by U.S. President Donald Trump about planned tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

At the close, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 stock index was down 44.4 points or 0.74 percent at 5,928.9, while the broader All Ordinaries index fell 47.3 points or 0.78 percent at 6,028.4.

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BANGKOK -- The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) index Friday moved down 18.15 points, or 0.99 percent to close at 1,811.98 points.

Some 10.60 billion shares worth 70.32 billion baht (about 2.24 billion U.S. dollars) changed hands. Enditem

 

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