Taiwan: Taipei meets to begin discussions on ECFA trade deal with China, a major trade concession by the Chinese.
Russia: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visits areas around Moscow to inspect extinguishing of wildfires and to chair housing construction conference
Russia: President Dmitry Medvedev meets the leaders of Putin's ruling party, United Russia.
Indonesia: Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono gives state of the union address at House of Representatives
India: New Delhi is currently conducting negotiations with Tehran on purchasing Iranian natural gas. According to Indian Ambassador to Iran Sanjay Singh, India will need more than four times more energy over the next ten years.
Pakistan: The United Nations has urged foreign aid donors to speed up their delivery of aid as the Pakistani government predicted additional flooding. The prime minister's office said a second and third wave of floods may hit the country, and reservoirs and dams may break due to the continued heavy rain expected in Punjab province and northwest Pakistan, and scattered rain over Sindh and Balochistan.
Pakistan: United Nations Children Fund (Unicef) regional director for South Asia Daniel Toole visits (-21) to review progress of humanitarian response; will tour flood-affected areas in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Sindh
Azerbaijan: Turkish President Abdullah Gul visits; discusses bilateral ties, easing visa requirements; energy cooperation
Iran: Former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami criticized the Iranian government for lacking tolerance, and compared it to totalitarian systems in which criticism of a regime is considered an attempt to overthrow it.
Iran: The website of Shahr News Agency, based in the Tehran municipality, has been blocked because it was not permitted to operate as a news organization, according to Shahr acting head Hamed Rezai.
Iraq: Following up after the Iraqi National Alliance (INA) rejected a power-sharing plan proposed by the United States to split authority between former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's al-Iraqiya list and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's State of Law coalition
Yemen: Authorities claim that a regional leader of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula in al-Jawf province, Jamaan Safian, has surrendered to authorities.
Egypt: Direct talks are to be announced between Israel and the Palestinian National Authority today by the Middle East Quartet and will begin in Cairo during the week of Aug. 22, Saudi-owned Okaz newspaper reported
Gaza: Filippo Grandi, UNRWA Commissioner, will be giving a press conference at 10.30 in Gaza City to talk about the funding situation and overall Gaza humanitarian situation (over the weekend Mr Grandi said UNRWA had an $84mn deficit and unless more donors come on board clinics and schools in Gaza and elsewhere will have to close down).
Morocco: Morocco-Spanish border at Ceuta Melilla will be blocked by activists who will stop the passage of construction materials, workers and fresh food into the enclave in a dispute over alleged violence and racism by Spanish police against Moroccans crossing into the area.
Namibia: Regional heads of state gather for the 30th annual Southern African Development Community meeting; South African President Jacob Zuma will present report on political situation in Zimbabwe
Belarus: Opposition rallies in central Minsk demanding international probe into disappearance of President Alyaksandr Lukashenka's opponents in late 1990s-early 2000s
Greece: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on official visit to Greece. He meets Greek President Karolos Papoulias and Prime Minister George Papandreou.
UK: Unite trade union officials are due to meet to decide the dates of any strikes
US: Hearing to decide if former media tycoon Conrad Black will be permitted to go to Toronto to attend to his ailing wife, while awaiting an appeals court ruling on whether his 2007 fraud conviction should be thrown out.
Paraguay: Uruguayan President Jose Alberto Mujica visits Supreme Court, National Congress before leaving for home
Peru: American citizen Lori Berenson - released from jail after 15 years of prison after being found guilty of collaborating with leftist guerrillas - goes to court as prosecutors push for her to be returned to jail.
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