Xinhua summary of Asia-Pacific stocks news at 1100 GMT, May 3

BEIJING -- Chinese stocks closed higher Thursday led by the liquor-making sector.

The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index closed 0.64 percent higher to end at 3,100.86. The Shenzhen Component Index closed 1.12 percent higher at 10,458.62.

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

The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) was at 1,851.80 down 0.23 points or 0.01 percent, and the Emas was at 12,908.22 down 22.52 points or 0.17 percent.

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JAKARTA -- Indonesia shares closed lower by 139.87 points, or 2.33 percent, to a level of 5,872.36 on Thursday.

Some 229,215 transactions were booked, involving 4.2 billion copies of shares with a value of 3.6 trillion rupiah (about 258.3 million U.S. dollars).

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MUMBAI -- Indian markets closed flat on a negative note Thursday.

The benchmark S&P BSE Sensex closed at 35,103.14, 73.28 point or 0.21 percent down compared to its previous close at 35,176.42.

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BANGKOK -- The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) index Thursday moved down 0.33 points, or 0.02 percent to close at 1,790.80 points.

Some 12.28 billion shares worth 58.78 billion baht (about 1.86 billion U.S. dollars) changed hands.

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SINGAPORE -- Singapore stocks closed lower on Thursday, with the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) went down 1.1 percent or 39.6 points to close at 3,575.68.

A total of 2.23 billion shares changed hands with a turnover of 1.55 billion Singapore dollars (about 1.16 billion U.S. dollars). Losers outnumbered gainers by 276 to 147.

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HONG KONG -- Hong Kong stocks closed down 410.51 points, or 1.34 percent, to 30,313.37 points on Thursday.

The benchmark Hang Seng Index traded between 30,118.65 and 30,432.07. Turnover totaled 101.09 billion Hong Kong dollars (about 12.88 billion U.S. dollars).

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HANOI -- Stock market index of Vietnam's capital Hanoi, HNX-Index, closed at 122.51 points on Thursday, up 1.53 points or 1.27 percent against the previous trading session.

About 49.511 million shares worth some 704.147 billion Vietnamese dong (some 31.2 million U.S. dollars) were traded at the Hanoi Stock Exchange on Thursday, an increase of 17.4 percent in volume and 9.7 percent in value against the previous trading session.

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HO CHI MINH CITY -- VN-Index, the stock market index of Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City bourse in southern Vietnam, closed at 1,026.46 points on Thursday, down 2.62 points, or 0.25 percent, against the previous trading day's closing session.

About 203.556 million shares worth 6.585 trillion Vietnamese dong (VND) (291.92 million U.S. dollars) changed hands at the southern HCM City Stock Exchange. Prices of 125 stocks went up, 156 stocks fell down, while 50 stocks remained unchanged.

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MANILA -- Philippine shares closed 2.60 percent lower on Thursday.

The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index decreased by 200.97 points to 7535.10. The all-share index went down by 96.60 points, or 2.06 percent, to 4602.48.

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SEOUL -- South Korean stocks declined Thursday on rising expectations for the U.S. Federal Reserve's additional rate hike, ending the previous rally caused by last week's inter-Korean summit.

The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) shrank 18.36 points, or 0.73 percent, to settle at 2,487.25. Trading volume stood at 595.88 million shares worth 7.42 trillion won (6.9 billion U.S. dollars).

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SYDNEY -- The Australian share market closed higher on Thursday, on the back of days of consecutive gains to record a three-month high.

At the close, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 stock index was up 48.1 points or 0.8 percent at 6,098.3, while the broader All Ordinaries index added 50.3 points or 0.82 percent at 6,187.

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VIENTIANE -- The Lao stock market closed on Thursday, down 1.80 percent compared to the previous trading day.

The Lao Securities Exchange composite index decreased by 16.58 points to reach 906.34 points after closing. Enditem