It isn't entirely clear why Indonesian President Joko Widodo, popularly referred to as Jokowi, cancelled his dinner plans with Cook but regional experts and media have pinned the blame on the country's forest fires.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to bang the drum for his "Make in India" campaign during his maiden visit to China this week, but will companies from the "world`s factory floor" bite?
Narendra Modi will begin his three-day visit to China on Thursday, where he will meet top government officials and corporate leaders in Xi'an, Beijing and Shanghai to discuss greater economic cooperation between the two Asian giants.
Across the capital, Kathmandu, and beyond, exhausted families whose homes were either flattened or at risk of collapse laid mattresses out on streets and erected tents to shelter from rain. The sick and wounded also lay out in the open, unable to find beds in the city's overwhelmed hospitals
India's campaign spend, which can include cash stuffed in envelopes as well as multi-million-dollar ad campaigns, has been estimated at Rs 30,000 crore by the Centre for Media Studies, which tracks spending.
India`s government last week decided to extend its visa-on-arrival scheme to 180 countries worldwide from just 11 countries previously in a bid to boost tourist arrivals in the country.