According to S.Davaapurev, head of the public relations service of the Gandantegchinlen Monastery, His Holiness’s visit is a religious mission. As a tradition, before leaving Dalai lama will give a media conference at the Ikh Tenger complex. The main events with participation of His Holiness will take place at the Gandantegchinlen Monastery on November 19. However, this will be exclusively religious ritual, not for mass. For the public, Dalai Lama’s teaching will be available on November 20. A scientific conference among scholars is expected as well. No political activity is planned.

The visit program of His Holiness does not provide for any action related to identification of a new embodiment of Bogdo Khaan X, Mongolian religious leader.

"It is very hard for Wechat to expand overseas, unless we can offer wholly different customer experience, but social apps are basically all alike," Ma told a forum at the third World Internet Conference in east China's Zhejiang Province. "In markets dominated by WhatsApp or Line, we can't challenge them."

WhatsApp is the world's most popular instant messenger, with close to a billion active users. WeChat lags behind with around 650 million users, mostly in China.

Tencent, possibly China's premier Internet company, rose to prominence with a messaging service called QQ in the late 1990s and came to dominate China's social networking market with WeChat a decade later, just as mobile Internet took off. China has around 700 million Internet users, most of whom use smartphones.

WeChat has gained a foothold in some overseas markets. It has become the messaging app of choice in Malaysia, but elsewhere users are mainly ethnic Chinese.

The spread of WeChat usually begins in the overseas Chinese community and spreads to friends and colleagues, Ma said.

Last year, on a visit to University of Washington where there are 7,000 Chinese among nearly 40,000 students, Ma found many foreigners, not least the university president, using WeChat. Off campus, WeChat is less popular because the Chinese population is low.

Ma remains interested in expanding overseas and expects Tencent to achieve some success in fields other than social networking, like gaming, payments and Internet of Things.

In China, WeChat is much more than a messaging app. People use it as a tool kit to shop both on and offline, buy air and train tickets, hail taxis, read the news, pay bills, book accommodation, and many other services.

Japanese Environment Minister Kouichi Yamamoto met with China's special representative for climate change, Xie Zhenhua, in Morocco on Thursday. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the COP22 UN climate change conference.

US President-elect Donald Trump has suggested that the United States should withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Yamamoto told Xie that it's unclear what path the US will take, but Japan wants to continue its efforts to tackle global warming.

Xie replied that China learned about environmental policies from Japan and wants to maintain good relations with it.

Earlier, Yamamoto told NHK that it is important for the COP22 meeting to send a strong message regarding the whole world's commitment to the Paris Agreement. He said this would help those who are skeptical about global warming understand the world trend.

"If somebody attacks Japan, we have to immediately go and start World War III, okay? If we get attacked, Japan doesn't have to help us. Somehow, that doesn't sound so fair." – Donald Trump, Dec. 30, 2015, Hilton Head, South Carolina.

"You're going to have to ask yourself, at what point and at what cost do we continue to protect Japan, Germany and many other countries. They're not paying for the protection anywhere near what it's costing us." – Donald Trump, Face The Nation, CBS News, April 3, 2016

Katsuyuki Kawai, an adviser to Abe sent to set up the Trump meeting, said he had spoken to several Trump advisers since arriving in Washington on Monday.

"I have been meeting with so many top aides to the president-elect and also I have been meeting with the very distinguished senators and congressmen and they unanimously told me that we don’t have to take each word that Mr. Trump said publicly literally."

The country's two tech giants also urged closer cooperation between the public and private sectors at China's third World Internet Conference, which has focused on heightened threats to cyber security over the past year, including disruptions to financial systems and online terrorist radicalization.

China says the new law, which formalizes broad restrictions on technology companies working in China, was designed to remove cyber security threats in "critical" industries not to target foreign businesses and will help counter terrorism.

However, overseas business groups and technology organizations say it unfairly targets them with overzealous surveillance measures and local data storage requirements.

Analysts say Alibaba and Tencent operate websites and apps that have a largely local user base, and so face fewer changes in the way they store data as a result of the law.

"This marks a step forward for China. We are asking [Tencent] professionals to learn from these regulations," Yang Peng, director of Tencent's Executive Committee for Information Security, said at the conference, which is organized by China's internet regulator and has also focused on building more robust global governance and the responsibility of the media.

Critics of the cyber security law say while China's influence in global technology has grown, its ruling Communist Party led by Xi has presided over broader and more vigorous efforts to control, and often censor, information online.

Alibaba's Vice President Yu Weimin said the group has 3,000 people dedicated to security, and the e-commerce giant is "working with law enforcement" to crack down on some content.

"With all this technology together we can win the war on terrorism," Yu said.

Tencent's Yang said the company is working within state regulations to clean up content, and has removed 80,000 video clips from their site this year.

Cyber security took on a greater focus among regulators worldwide in February when it emerged that hackers stole $81 million from the Central Bank of Bangladesh [BDCB.UL] via SWIFT, the global financial messaging system. The funds were transferred to accounts in the Philippines and Sri Lanka.

Both Tencent and Alibaba operate online payment platforms that offer services ranging from bill payments to money transfers. Alibaba's Alipay dominates the online payments industry in China, while Tencent's WeChat payment system is increasingly popular.

"Big internet companies are the ones with the means to fight cyber terrorism, which is why we need more cooperation between the private and public sector," Alibaba's Yu said.

(Editing by Ryan Woo and Alexander Smith)

"The United States has announced it is suspending the submission of TPP to the parliament so there are not sufficient conditions for Vietnam to submit its proposal for ratification," Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc told the National Assembly, according to Reuters.

The TPP deal is a project of incumbent US President Barack Obama aimed at increasing American exports. The future of the trade deal is highly uncertain in the Republican-dominated Congress and with President-elect Trump calling the project a "disaster".

"TPP is now in the history dustbin for sure," Gary Hufbauer, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, told Politico last week.

Asian countries have reacted differently to the increasing likelihood of the trade treaty failure. Malaysia is focusing on a China-led trade agreement, while Japan has been seeking to revive the TPP.

"We already have signed 12 free trade agreements, so joining the TPP is good, but without joining TPP we will still continue to further the economic integration under programs we have joined," said the Vietnamese Prime Minister.

Among Vietnam’s free trade agreements is a deal with the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union that came into power in October. Almost 60 percent of the tariffs between Vietnam and the bloc uniting Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan have been eliminated with another 30 percent expected to be eliminated in the next five to ten years.

"We are ready to cooperate with the United States for co-development on the principle of respecting independence, territorial sovereignty, causing no harms to each other. In that spirit, I believe the Vietnam-US ties will be better in the coming time," said Phuc.

Last week, Vietnam's trade minister said traditional exports like textiles, seafood and footwear would remain competitive even without the US deal.

Roskomnadzor, the watchdog, said it was acting to protect Russian Internet users' data. Russian law requires websites which store the personal data of Russian citizens to do so on Russian servers, something it said LinkedIn did not do.

LinkedIn, headquartered in the United States, has more than 6 million registered users in Russia. It is the first major social network to be blocked by Russian authorities, setting a precedent for the way foreign Internet firms operate.

LinkedIn's site would become unavailable in Russia within a day, the Interfax news agency cited Roskomnadzor spokesman Vadim Ampelonsky as saying. One Internet service provider, Rostelcom, was quick to say it had already blocked access to the site.

LinkedIn could not be immediately reached for comment.

It said in a statement earlier this month that the decision risked denying access to its site for millions of Russian members, including companies, who use it to grow their businesses.

The law requiring websites which store the personal data of Russian citizens to do so on Russian servers was introduced in 2014, but never previously enforced.

Critics see the move against LinkedIn as part of an attack on social networks in a country which has increasingly tightened control over the Internet in recent years.

(Reporting by Jack Stubbs; Writing by Maria Tsvetkova; Editing by Andrew Osborn)