COLOMBO -- A female Chinese national who arrived in Sri Lanka recently from Hubei Province has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the island's Health Promotion Bureau said on Monday evening.

The Chinese national is presently receiving treatment at the National Infectious Disease Hospital. (Sri Lanka-Coronavirus)

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TOKYO -- The president of a utility company that operates a nuclear power plant in western Japan on Monday apologized for a string of serious mishaps at the plant including a control rod being mistakenly removed from a reactor.

Keisuke Nagai, president of Shikoku Electric Power Company, offered his apologies to the governor of Ehime Prefecture, Tokihiro Nakamura, for the mishaps and vowed to get to the bottom of the causes. (Japan-Nuclear plant)

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TOKYO -- A group of Japanese researchers said on Monday that they have conducted the world's first transplant of heart muscle tissues using artificially derived stem cells known as iPS.

The Osaka University team, led by Professor Yoshiki Sawa, aims to establish a treatment for patients with serious heart disease by restoring the organ's function. It is hoped that the transplant of iPS cells will serve as an alternative to a heart transplant, which has been the only option for treating heart failure. (Japan-Heart operation)

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PHNOM PENH -- A Chinese man from the central Chinese city of Wuhan was confirmed as the first person in Cambodia infected with the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Cambodian Health Minister Mam Bunheng announced at a press conference here on Monday evening.

He said the Chinese man, 60, was tested positive for the virus by the Pasteur Institute in Cambodia on Monday afternoon. (Cambodia-Coronavirus case)

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KABUL -- A passenger plane crashed in Afghanistan's eastern Ghazni province on Monday with dozens killed or injured, a member of provincial council Khaliqdad Akbari said to local media.

The crash took place in the Taliban-held area of Sadokhil in Deh Yak district in the afternoon, he said. (Afghanistan-Plane crash) Enditem

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