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The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index was down 0.14 percent to close at 3,140.01 points. The smaller Shenzhen Component Index closed 0.25 percent higher at 10,288.53 points.

Total turnover in the two indices rose to 398 billion yuan (59 billion U.S. dollars) from 351 billion yuan the previous trading day.

The ChiNext Index, China's NASDAQ-style board of growth enterprises, was up 0.25 percent to close at 1,820.98 points.

The MSCI decision is due Tuesday afternoon in the United States (4:30 a.m. Wednesday Beijing time). There has been less talk about the decision this year compared to the past three years. Analysts said China's stock market has and will keep on opening up, regardless of the outcome -- a nod from the MSCI is surely just a matter of time.

Money injections by the central bank are helping to ease liquidity in the financial markets and liquidity risks are thought to be controllable in June. Open market operations are still neutral.

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CHONGQING， June 28 (Xinhua) -- Relentless rain continued to wreak havoc in several southern Chinese provinces Tuesday， disrupting train services， flooding highways and forcing thousands of people to evacuate their inundated homes.

Two rail routes in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality， linking the southwestern provinces of Sichuan and Guizhou， were impassable affecting more than 50 passenger trains， railway authorities said.

Trains traveling to and from big cities including Beijing， Shanghai， Xi'an， Urumqi， Kunming， Guangzhou and Shenzhen， were forced to bypass the flooded sections or be suspended over safety concerns， the railway bureau of Chengdu， capital of Sichuan Province， said in a press release.

"Thousands of passengers had to be transferred onto replacement bus services，" it said.

The deadlock was made worse after a landslide covered a section of track linking Chengdu and Chongqing Monday. Railway authorities have sent more than 140 workers， two excavators and four drills to clear the rubble and reinforce the roadbed.

It is unknown when the rail service will return to normal.

The stormy weather also plagued drivers in Chongqing. A tunnel on an expressway in Youyang County was flooded Tuesday and 60 people， in two buses and 10 cars， were stranded for several hours before they were evacuated.

Chongqing has suffered the most in the latest round of bad weather， which began Monday. In Qijiang District， more than 212.4 mm of rain fell from Monday evening to midday Tuesday.

Qijiang River， a tributary to the Yangtze River， is dangerously high. A flood crest reached downtown Qijiang at 5:20 p.m. Tuesday， inundating many riverside homes and stores.

"The flood happened so suddenly. I had no time to move any of my stock，" according to Mr. Yuan， an auto-parts shop owner. "All I can do is wait until the flood subsides to see if anything can be saved."

More than 7，000 riverside residents in Qijiang District had been relocated as of 5 p.m. Direct economic losses have been estimated in the region at 65 million yuan (9.78 million U.S. dollars).

Hubei Province in central China is also on flood alert， as 11 cities and counties have experienced heavy rain. The provincial government has issued flood alarms as water levels in 787 reservoirs have risen above the danger mark.

Thunderstorms also battered the provinces of Guizhou， Hunan， Jiangxi， Jiangsu and Anhui Monday and Tuesday.

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, July 14 (Xinhua) -- A group of Chinese villagers at a court in Amersterdam on Friday demanded that a collector reveal the identity of the individual from whom he bought a purportedly stolen Buddha statue, saying the figure must be returned to its rightful temple in China.

The Buddha statue with an intact mummified body inside was bought by Amsterdam collector Oscar van Overeem in 1996, who now claims to have swapped with another buyer for several Buddhist art objects.

Villagers in China's southeastern province of Fujian recognized it as their stolen Zhang Gong statue when the statue was on exhibition in Hungary in March 2015.

Van Overeem agreed that the Buddha comes from the province of Fujian, but insisted that it is not the statue stolen from the villagers' temple.

He once agreed to return it if his conditions were met. When negotiations failed, the villagers filed a lawsuit against him in the Dutch court.

WHO IS THE NEW HOLDER

At the hearing, van Overeem stated that the new holder of the statue is a "collector-investor-intermediary," who "is aware of the mummy controversy and political sensitivities and prefers to remain anonymous."

When asked to disclose the name of the new holder, or email exchanges that reflect the negotiation of the deal and the conditions under which there was an exchange, the Dutch collector refused.

Under the Dutch Civil Code, such an agreement is contrary to good morals, and is an affront to decency and public order, therefore is void, Dutch lawyer Jan Holthuis representing the Chinese villagers told the court.