Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1600 GMT, April 7

TOKYO — Anxiety looms over the forthcoming 2025 World Exposition in Japan’s Osaka, as a media poll showed on Sunday that 82 percent of entities involved were worried about tepid enthusiasm from the public just a year shy of the event’s inauguration.
The survey conducted by Kyodo News was responded to by 45 companies, sponsors, and organizations linked with the event, many expressing their concerns regarding public interest and the financial outlay. (Japan-World Expo-Survey)
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JAKARTA — Indonesia has operated 2,800 extra flights for the Eid el-Fitr homecoming season, according to Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi.
“There are more homecoming travelers and occupancy is better,” Sumadi said. (Indonesia-Eid-Homecoming)
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SYDNEY — Heavy rainfall across the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) last Friday night and subsequent floods had caused significant property damage in the state.
The NSW State Emergency Service (SES) said in a statement on Sunday morning that it was commencing damage assessments in the Illawarra, a coastal region in the southeast of NSW, and Sydney Northern Beaches, and had found 20 properties damaged and six non-habitable in parts of the Illawarra. (Australia-Flood-Damage)
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ISLAMABAD — A policeman was killed and another injured when a bomb went off in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Saturday, rescue officials said.
The incident happened in the tribal district of Bajaur where the police party was targeted by a roadside improvised explosive device, Saad Khan, media coordinator of the state-owned Rescue organization 1122 in Bajaur, told Xinhua. (Pakistan-Explosion) Enditem