US navy commander jailed

Washington

A US navy commander was sentenced to 78 months in prison for accepting paid travel, sex service and concert tickets from a Malaysian defence contractor in exchange for classified information. Michael Vannak Khem Misiewicz, 48, was also ordered to pay $100,000 in fines and forfeit $95,000 in proceeds from the fraud scheme. IANS

Beijing

Work begins at Tibet’s plant China has started construction of its biggest hydropower plant in Tibet costing over $3 billion. The Suwalong hydropower project at the junction of Mangkam county in Tibet and Batang county in the Sichuan province has a design capacity of 1.2 GW and will be able to generate about 5,400-GWh electricity a year when completed in 2021, official media reported. PTI

Beijing
China, Japan to mend ties 

China and Japan agreed to step up efforts to improve their relations frozen over rival claims on a group of islands as the Foreign Ministers of the world's second and the third-largest economies held rare talks after a gap of over four years. On a fence-mending visit, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida held talks with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. PTI