ISLAMABAD -- Two people were killed and another injured on Sunday morning in a blast near a market in Pakistan's northwest Peshawar city, rescue service reported.

The blast took place early in the morning on Nasir Bagh road near Board Bazaar, a local market in Peshawar, the capital city of the country's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, resulting in casualties, Bilal Ahmad Faizi, public relations officer of the state-run Rescue 1122 of KP told Xinhua. (Pakistan-Blast-KP)

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MANILA -- Philippine security forces have killed two suspected militants in a clash in the southern Philippines, the military said on Sunday.

In a report, the military said fighting broke out around 5 a.m. local time Saturday after troops chanced upon a group of Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) in a village in Maguindanao del Sur province. (Philippines-Clash-BIFF)

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PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia approved fixed-asset investment projects worth 1.39 billion U.S. dollars in the first two months of 2024, a significant rise of about 500 percent compared to the same period last year, a Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC)'s report said on Sunday.

Some 545 million dollars, or 39 percent of the total investment capital, was from China during the January-February period this year, the report said. (Cambodia-Investment) Enditem

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