Asian markets end mostly higher; South Korea's Kospi index advances 1.2%

Asian markets ended mostly higher. So, Japan's Nikkei-225 index climbed 1.1 per cent; Hong Kong's Hang Seng index edged up 0.2 per cent; South Korea's Kospi index advanced 1.2 per cent and Singapore's Straits Times index rose 0.4 per cent, But China's Shanghai Composite index shed 0.2 per cent. In Europe, London's FTSE-100 had traded marginally lower but France's CAC-40 had risen 0.5 per cent and Germany's DAX had inched up ...