BBCMon News Diary 11 - 21 May 2006 - Asia-Pacific/South Asia.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

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Asia-Pacific

6-13

FIJI: Parliamentary elections; only second since 2000 coup; EU sending observers (Fiji government website)

7-14

CHINA: Tunisian Foreign Minister Abdelouahab Abdallah visits (Chinese news agency Xinhua)

8-14

CHINA: Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller visits for talks with counterpart Li Zhaoxing (Chinese news agency Xinhua)

9-11

AUSTRALIA: Security in Government (SIG) Conference in Canberra on theme of "Security and the Australian Community"; speakers include Attorney-General Philip Ruddock, Justice and Customs Minister Chris Ellison, Director-General of Security Paul O'Sullivan, Commissioner of Australian Federal Police Mick Keelty, Director-General of Office of National Assessments intelligence agency Peter Varghese (Australian Attorney-General's Department website)

10-11

TAIWAN: China's vice minister for information, Jiang Yaoping, visits; accompanied by major players in China's telecom industry; attends forum on standards development (Taiwanese newspaper Lien-ho Pao)

10-13

INDONESIA: Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad visits for talks with counterpart Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono; Tehran's nuclear ambitions likely to dominate agenda; Ahmadinezhad also due to participate in Bali summit (13 - see …