AlQa'dah 4, 1434, Sep 10, 2013, SPA -- Asian shares rose Tuesday, buoyed by good data from Japan and China, according to AP. Tokyo's Nikkei 225, the regional heavyweight, was up 1.5 percent in afternoon trading at 14,423.36. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index was up 0.5 percent to 22,872.89, China's Shanghai Composite index rose 0.6 percent at 2,226.62. Benchmarks in Indonesia, India and the Philippines were up nearly 2 percent or more. South Korea's Kospi rose 1 percent to 1,994.06 and Australia's S&P/ASX 200 advanced 0.4 percent to 5,201.20.. On Monday, Japanese shares rallied thanks to Tokyo's Olympic bid victory, which helped lift sentiment, while Chinese stocks surged after the economy recorded a bigger-than-expected trade surplus of $28.6 billion in August.
