Asian shares fluctuate as Samsung gain 0.6%

Asian shares swung between gains and losses on Thursday trading session with the South Korean benchmark falling despite an 0.6% increase of Samsung Electronics and as Japan's Nikkei 225 Stocks average lost 0.6%, while the Singapore's gauge advance as much as 0.5% on the session. The MSCI broadest Asia-Pacific gauge outside Japan inched higher 0.1%.