Xinhua summary of Asia-Pacific stocks news at 1100GMT, Feb.26
TOKYO -- Tokyo shares ended higher Thursday with its benchmark Nikkei index closing at a fresh near 15-year high on news saying Japan's public servant pension fund will boost investment in domestic stocks.
The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average jumped 200.59 points, or 1.08 percent, higher from Wednesday at 18,785.79, its highest closing level since April 2000.
The turnover was about 2,508.9 billion yen (about 21.09 billion U.S. dollars).
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BEIJING -- Chinese stocks ended higher on Thursday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 2.18 percent to finish at 3,299.14 points.
The Shenzhen Component Index advanced 1.83 percent to close at11,750.78 points.
The ChiNext Index, tracking China's Nasdaq-style board of growth enterprises, gained 0.19 percent to end at 1,880.39 points.
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SEOUL -- Seoul shares ended higher on Thursday.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) gained2.61 points, or 0.13 percent, to 1,993.08 at the close. Trading volume stood at 379.35 million shares worth 5.02 trillion won (4.56 billion U.S. dollars).
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HONG KONG -- Hong Kong stocks moved up 123.78 points, or 0.50 percent, to close on Thursday at 24,902.06 points.
The benchmark Hang Seng Index traded between 24,709.56 and 24,998.64. Turnover totaled 82.72 billion HK dollars (about 11.30 billion U.S. dollars).
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MANILA -- Philippine shares closed 1.02 percent lower on Thursday.
The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index decreased by 79.67 points to 7764.39. The all-share index went down by 35.33 points, or 0.78 percent, to 4510.69.
Trading volume reached 2.84 billion shares worth 7.08 billion pesos (160.30 million U.S. dollars).
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HONG KONG -- Taiwan's share prices closed down 0.79 percent on Thursday with the weighted index down 77.44 points at 9,622.10, according to news reaching here from Taipei.
Turnover totaled 94.54 billion new Taiwan dollars (about 3.01 billion U.S. dollars) during the 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 596.72 points on Thursday, up 4.06 points, or 0.69 percent, against the previous trading day's closing session.
About 89.935 million shares worth 1.449 trillion Vietnamese dong(VND) (67.56 million U.S. dollars) changed hands at the southern HCM City Stock Exchange.
VN30-Index, the new benchmark index for the southern bourse, which tracks the 30 leading stocks by both market capitalization and liquidity, closed at 623.84 points, up 4.4 points, or 0.71 percent.
A total of 46.971 million shares worth 765.09 billion VND (35.65 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 86.06 points on Thursday, up 0.39 points, or 0.46 percent, against the previous trading session.
A total of 39.73 million shares worth 503.966 billion Vietnamese dong (23.6 million U.S. dollars) were traded at the Hanoi Stock Exchange on Thursday, a decrease of 31.52 percent in volume and24.66 percent in value against the previous trading session.
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VIENTIANE -- The Lao stock market finished on Thursday up 0.12 percent against the previous trading day.
The Lao Securities Exchange composite index increased by 1.76 points to 1,413.65. A total of 22,206 shares worth about 157 million Lao kip (about 19,000 U.S. dollars) changed hands at the stock market.
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JAKARTA -- Indonesian shares closed higher by 6.31 points, or 0.12 percent, to a level of 5,451.42 on Thursday.
Some 247,100 transactions were booked, involving 6.84 billion shares worth 7.65 trillion rupiah (about 594.78 million U.S. dollars).
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SINGAPORE -- Singapore stocks finished lower on Thursday, with the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) down 14.65 points, or 0.43 percent, to close at 3,426.18.
A total of 1.13 billion shares changed hands with turnover of946.2 billion Singapore dollars (695.7 million U.S. dollars).
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KUALA LUMPUR -- The Malaysian stock market ended higher here on Thursday.
The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) was at 1,820.87 up 5.01 points or 0.28 percent, and the Emas was at 12,554.30 up 40.93 points or 0.33 percent.
Turnover increased to 1.89 billion shares valued at 2.03 billion ringgit Malaysia (566.17 million U.S. dollars), compared with 1.70 billion shares valued at 1.91 billion ringgit Malaysia ( 529.53 million U.S. dollars) on Wednesday.
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BANGKOK -- The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) index Thursday moved up 4.22 points, or 0.27 percent to close at 1,589.33 points.
Some 15.84 billion shares worth 66.43 billion baht (about 2.01 billion U.S. dollars) changed hands.
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MUMBAI -- The S&P BSE Sensex plunged over 200 points as the market remained under pressure post Railway freight rate hike.
The 30-share index closed at 28,746.65, 261.34 points or 0.90 percent down from previous close of 29,007.99 points. Enditem
