* At the invitation of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin will pay his first official visit to Cambodia on Sept. 28, Cambodia's foreign ministry announced in a press statement on Tuesday.
* Chinese Vice President Han Zheng Tuesday met with former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in Beijing, saying China welcomes more U.S. companies to invest and do business in China to share development opportunities.
* With the El Nino phenomenon having an impact around the world, the Lao government and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have discussed the readiness of authorities to cope with potential droughts.
* The Indian government on Tuesday extended support under the Scheme for Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products (RoDTEP) till June 30 next year at the same rates to the existing export items, according to a statement of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
* Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Tuesday launched the country's first carbon exchange, named IDXCarbon, as part of its commitment to reduce gas emissions.
* Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday discussed bilateral relations as well as the latest regional developments over the phone.
* King Abdullah II of Jordan on Tuesday approved a reshuffle in the government of Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh, according to a Royal Court statement.
* Turkish parliament will ratify Sweden's NATO membership if the United States permits the sale of its F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday.
* The agriculture ministers of the Visegrad Group (V4) countries on Tuesday called on the European Union (EU) to tighten controls on the routes for Ukraine's grain exports and to introduce new measures.
* Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store announced Tuesday that his country will provide 350 million Norwegian kroner (32.35 million USD) to support the work of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in Ukraine.
* Germany is preparing to tighten controls along its borders to address human trafficking, Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser said on Tuesday.
* Poland may introduce checks at the border with Germany amid concerns over a surge in illegal migrants, a government spokesperson told Polsat News late on Tuesday.
* The United States is pausing certain foreign assistance programs benefiting the government of Gabon following last month's coup, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement released by the U.S. State Department on Tuesday.
* The Libyan Foreign Ministry on Tuesday condemned a drone attack on troops stationed on Saudi Arabia's southern border with Yemen, which killed two Bahraini military personnel and injured several others.
* The first Saudi ambassador to Palestine Naif bin Bandar Al-Sudairi arrived in the West Bank on Tuesday, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
* Cambodia recorded some 3.5 million international tourists in the first eight months of 2023, a year-on-year increase of 250.8 percent, the country's Prime Minister Hun Manet said Wednesday.
* Thailand's exports increased for the first time in 11 months in August due to higher shipments of agricultural and industrial products amid a weakening baht currency, official data showed on Tuesday.
* World Bank Group President Ajay Banga on Tuesday said proposed new contributions from wealthy countries combined with balance sheet changes could boost the bank's lending capacity by $100 billion to $125 billion over a decade.
* The Italian government will meet on Wednesday to set the framework for next year's budget against a backdrop of slowing growth and a rising fiscal deficit in the euro zone's third-largest economy, officials said.
* The economic downturn in Sweden will deepen and the economy won't improve before the second half of 2024, the National Institute of Economic Research (NIER) said on Wednesday.
* Italy is in preliminary talks with Bavaria's government to supply gas and hydrogen to the southern German state, and also aims to sell energy to Austria and Hungary, four Italian and German industry and political sources told Reuters.
* The European Union (EU) has approved a revised version of a 9.2-billion-euro (9.72-billion-USD) National Recovery Plan proposed by the Czech Republic.
* Greece will receive financial support totaling some 55 billion euros (58.22 billion USD) from the European Union (EU) over the next four to six years, Greek Deputy Minister of National Economy and Finance Nikos Papathanasis said on Tuesday.
* Iran's Revolutionary Guards successfully launched a third military satellite into orbit on Wednesday, state media reported, citing Minister of Communications Issa Zarepour.
* The number of children in Kenya in residential care institutions, like charitable children foundations, is estimated to be at 45,000, said the UN Children's Fund, or UNICEF, Tuesday.
* Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamed Dbeibah on Tuesday instructed the education ministry to launch maintenance work on schools that were damaged by the devastating floods.
* The avian flu outbreak in South Africa has led to the culling of more than 5 million egg-laying chickens so far this year in the country, the South African Poultry Association said Tuesday.
