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ISLAMABAD -- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was re-elected as head of the ruling party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Tuesday, a day after the country's president approved a parliamentary bill to reform the electoral policy.

Sharif was elected unopposed as no other party member submitted nomination papers to contest for the position. (Pakistan-Nawaz Sharif)

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TOKYO -- Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike's newly-formed Kibou no To (Party of Hope) on Tuesday unveiled its first contingent of candidates to run in the Oct. 22 lower house election.

The Party of Hope unveiled 191 candidates who will run in single-seat electoral districts in the 465-seat lower house. (Japan-Politics)

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JAKARTA -- The government of Indonesia has striven to enlarge productive rubber plantation in an effort to comply with rising domestic demand and raise export.

Secretary General Indonesian Industry Ministry Haris Munandar said Tuesday that the ministry supports the hike of the productive area to 3.5 million hectares from 3 million hectare at present. (Indonesia-Rubber export)

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PHNOM PENH -- About 800 Cambodian villagers were evacuated to a safe refuge on Tuesday, as experts began an operation to remove two U.S. tear gas barrel bombs left from the Vietnam war era, an operation leader said.

The two chemical bombs, containing 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile (CS), a type of tear gas, were dropped from a U.S. warplane during the Vietnam war a half-century ago, Lt. Gen. Ke Da, deputy secretary general of the Cambodian Defense Ministry's anti-chemical weapons authority, said. (Cambodia-Security) Enditem

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