Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1600 GMT, Dec. 21
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TOKYO -- Japan's Cabinet on Friday approved a record-high 101.46 trillion yen (913 billion U.S. dollars) budget plan for fiscal 2019, with soaring social security costs and military spending weighing on the country's already-fragile fiscal health.
According to the draft budget, the fiscal year starting from April 2019 will see record-high 77.95 trillion yen (701 billion U.S. dollars) earmarked for policy spending in the general account of the Japanese government. (Japan-Budget)
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KATHMANDU -- At least 16 people were killed, 14 sustained injuries and seven others went missing after a bus returning from a picnic drove off a highway in Dang district of the western Nepal on Friday, local authorities said here.
"Sixteen people were killed instantly, 14 others were injured and seven went missing as the bus veered off the highway and plunged some 500 meters down. We have been carrying out rescue operation in coordination with local residents and security personnel," Chief District Officer Govinda Prasad Rijal told Xinhua by phone from the crash site. (Nepal-Bus Accident-Casualties)
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TOKYO -- The Japanese government said Friday that it has lodged a protest with the South Korean government over a radar incident that allegedly occurred on the previous day.
Japanese officials said that a South Korean warship directed fire-control radar at a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force P-1 patrol aircraft off the coast of Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, around 3:00 p.m. local time on Thursday. (Japan-S.Korea-Radar)
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NEW DELHI -- China and India said here Friday that establishing the China-India high-level people to people exchanges mechanism is an important measure to develop the all-round bilateral relations between the two countries.
The first meeting of the China-India high-level people to people exchanges mechanism was co-chaired here by Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. (India-China-Exchanges) Enditem
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