Xinhua Asia-Pacific News Summary at 1600 GMT, March 11

TOKYO -- More than 70,000 people are still living as evacuees seven years following triple disasters that hit Fukushima and its neighboring areas on March 11, 2011, said Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday.

"With the passage of seven years, I can see that reconstruction of the affected region is steadily making progress," the prime minister said at a memorial ceremony in Tokyo. (Japan-Nuclear Disaster-Evacuees)

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KATHMANDU -- Prime Minister of Nepal K.P Sharma Oli secured Sunday the majority of the vote of confidence from the House of Representatives (HoR), the lower house of the Federal Parliament.

Oli bagged 208 votes out of the 268 votes in the lower house of the Federal Parliament, HoR Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara said during the parliament session in the Capital. (Nepal-PM-Vote)

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NEW DELHI -- India has set a target of producing 175 gigawatt of power by 2022 from renewable sources, out of which 100 gigawatts would be produced from solar energy.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the announcement at the inaugural session of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) in New Delhi on Sunday. (India-Solar Energy-Target)

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DHAKA -- Law enforcers have detained 39 aid workers at Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district, some 292 km southeast of capital Dhaka.

A senior police official said they have been working at the camps without any valid documents. (Bangladesh-Aid Workers-Arrest) Enditem