Malaysia's key index rebounded from a near four-week closing low hit on Thursday while the Philippines was up about 1 percent, further recovering from a near two-year low hit on Monday due to jitters in the region over China.
Stocks in Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam erased early gains and fell, while Asian shares as measured by MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan down 0.6 percent.
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