Megawati flies home: Ending her 13-day Asian tour, President

Megawati flies home: Ending her 13-day Asian tour, President Megawati Soekarnoputri flies home from Bombay, India, on Friday morning, with a stopover in Singapore where she will have a medical checkup. She is scheduled to arrive in Jakarta in the afternoon. On Thursday, Megawati visited the high-tech city of Hyderabad and India's financial city of Bombay. -- JP

India to send investment team to RI: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has told Indonesian President Megawati Soekarnoputri that a top-level business delegation will soon visit Jakarta to explore investment opportunities, officials said Thursday. An Indian foreign ministry statement said Vajpayee also urged the need to strengthen bilateral cooperation in industry sectors such as telecommunications, power and ports development.