French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi upon his arrival at Air Force Station Palam in New Delhi, India, March 9, 2018. [Photo/Agencies] NEW DELHI -- French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in New Delhi late Friday night on a four-day state visit to India. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Macron are slated to hold bilateral talks Saturday, following which a number of pacts are expected to be inked between the two countries, according to India's External Affairs Ministry. The visit of President Macron is aimed at strengthening the bilateral economic, political and strategic dimension of our engagement, the Ministry earlier said in a statement. Modi and President Macron will Sunday co-chair the Founding Conference of the International Solar Alliance (ISA), a flagship Indian initiative launched by the two countries on sidelines of Paris Climate Conference in 2015. Bilateral trade between India and France touched nearly 11 billion US dollars during April 2016 to March 2017. France is the ninth largest foreign investor in India. custom bar braceletcustom sports braceletscustom logo wristbandsde securite pour personne ageeembossed wristbandscolorfilled wristbandsembossed printed wristbandsdual layer wristbands
Cambodian Environment Minister Say Samal (R) shakes hands with Bai Chunli, president of the Beijing-based Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), during a signing ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on March 26, 2018. Cambodia inaugurated the first water quality monitoring station with China's aid on Monday near the confluence of the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers in the Diamond Island town. Say Samal and Bai Chunli jointly unveiled the station. [Photo/Xinhua] PHNOM PENH - Cambodia inaugurated the first water quality monitoring station with China's aid on Monday near the confluence of the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers in the Diamond Island town. Cambodian Environment Minister Say Samal and Bai Chunli, president of the Beijing-based Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), jointly unveiled the station. Samal expressed his profound gratitude to China for the donation, saying that the first water quality monitoring station was vital to inspecting the quality of water in the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers in Phnom Penh. As our population becomes bigger, our city becomes bigger, the water quality monitoring station is very important to diagnose the quality of water in the rivers, he said. Bai said the station was part of the China-Cambodia joint lab for water and environment research and it marked a new milestone of collaboration between the two countries in the fields of water and environment. Before the inauguration ceremony, Samal and Bai also signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on environment cooperation, which would focus on environment protection, biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation, and natural resources management for sustainable development.
