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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday that India welcomes Chinese investment and the Chinese proposal to establish a Chinese Industrial Park in the country.
The Mekong River and flash floods have claimed at least 168 lives in Cambodia and cost the country about $500 million due to the damages to rice paddy and roads.
Heavy rain at the Fukushima nuclear plant has caused a leak of radioactive water containing a cancer-causing isotope, possibly into the sea, its operator said.
China needs to play a more active role in global security issues to maintain its expanding economic ties with other countries, especially with key energy partners.
The world's two most populous nations will try to remove a long-term irritant in their relations by signing a border agreement during Singh's visit.
Up to 36 militants have been killed in separate joint cleanup operations in Afghanistan within the last 24 hours, said the country's Interior Ministry Monday.
At least 16 people were killed Sunday evening when a bus in which they were traveling rolled down a gorge in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, said police Monday.
Three people have been killed in an apartment building fire in the central city of Karaganda, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Kazakhstan said.
Some of the rainwater overflowed from concrete barriers around clusters of tanks on Sunday in Fukushima nuclear power plant was found to have radiation levels above the regulatory limit, Tokyo Electric Power Co said Monday.
At least five people were killed and 15 others injured when a blast hit a passenger train in Pakistan's southwest province of Balochistan on Monday morning.
China is actively mapping out its "financial diplomacy", underlined by its recent initiatives to launch regional and global development banks.
Former Maldives President Nasheed has called for the arrest of incumbent President Waheed on Sunday and appealed for greater assistance from the international community after presidential elections was disrupted.
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