Main events scheduled in Japan for Monday, Oct. 12:

-- Bank of Japan to release preliminary corporate goods price index for September at 8:50 a.m.

-- Cabinet Office to release machinery orders data for August at 8:50 a.m.

-- Tokyo District Court to hand down ruling on former advisers to Chinese gambling operator 500.com Ltd. indicted for bribery in casino graft scandal involving Japanese lawmaker Tsukasa Akimoto, during session starting at 11 a.m.

==Kyodo

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