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Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1000 GMT, Sept. 9

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Indian Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari will pay an official visit to Cambodia from Sept. 15 to 17, where he will witness a signing ceremony of two cooperation documents between the two countries, according to a statement from the Cambodian foreign ministry on Wednesday.

The visit is aimed to further strengthen and deepen the ties of friendship and cooperation between the two countries, the statement said. (Cambodia-India-Visit)

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COLOMBO -- Three new cabinet ministers were sworn into Sri Lanka's new national government on Wednesday, the president's media unit said here.

The ministers were sworn in before President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat in capital Colombo. (Sri Lanka-Cabinet)

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ISLAMABAD -- A high-level Pakistani delegation, including paramilitary officials, left for India on Wednesday to hold talks with their Indian counterparts on security issues, focusing on suggestions to reduce tension on the border.

The four-day talks scheduled to begin in New Delhi later on Wednesday are held amid tensions over the recent cross-border shelling along the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed Kashmir region and the working boundary that caused civilian casualties. ( Pakistan-India-Border Security)

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KATHMANDU -- One protester was shot dead in clashes with police on Wednesday as protests against an administrative reform in the new constitution have persisted in southern plains of Nepal for nearly a month.

Ram Krishna Raut was killed in police firing in Saptari district when police cleared a highway blocked by the protesters. (Nepal-Protest) Endi