NEW DELHI -- At least one person was killed and around 50 others are feared trapped under debris after an under-construction building collapsed Tuesday in southwestern Indian state of Karnataka, local government officials said.

The building collapsed in Kumareshwar Nagar of Dharwad district, about 433 km northwest of Bengaluru, the capital city of Karnataka. (India-Building collapse)

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PHNOM PENH -- The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Cambodia and Shenzhen 4PX Express, part of the Alibaba Cainiao Logistics Group, signed here on Tuesday a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on building an ecosystem to nurture e-commerce and related logistics.

The partnership would help build capacity for Cambodian small and medium enterprises to put their products onto the global scene through Alibaba platform as well as to tap into global online products and services for Cambodia, according to Cambodian Transport Minister Sun Chanthol. (Cambodia-China-E-commerce)

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TOKYO -- Japan will send Self-Defense Force (SDF) members to Egypt in mid-April, the government said here Tuesday, with the controversial move marking the first non-United Nations-backed deployment of Japanese troops.

It's accelerating the cabinet approval in late March for the dispatch. (Japan-SDF Troops-Dispatch)

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DHAKA -- Hundreds of students on Tuesday blocked a major road leading to Bangladesh's main airport in capital Dhaka in protest over the death of their friend.

Owing to roadblock agitation, vehicles were sandwiched side by side and moved at a snail's pace for hours in Bangladesh on Tuesday.(Bangladesh-Protest) Enditem

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