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BEIJING, July 25 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale jolted New Ireland region, Papua New Guinea at 8:50 a.m. Beijing Time Monday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.

The epicenter, with a depth of 30 km, was monitored at 3.1 degrees south latitude and 150.7 degrees east longitude, the center said in a statement.

SEOUL, July 25 (Xinhua) -- South Korea and India signed an accord Monday on nuclear cooperation, laying a legal basis for South Korea's efforts to export nuclear power plants.

The bilateral agreement was signed after a summit in Seoul between South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and his Indian counterpart, Pratibha Patil, according to the president's office Cheong Wa Dae.

During a summit talks, Lee called for support from the Indian government for South Korea's efforts to make inroads into the atomic power plant market of India, a country with 20 nuclear plants, Cheong Wa Dae said in a press release.

India is currently building six nuclear power plants and plans to construct some 40 more by 2032, while South Korea seeks to become a major exporter of its home-built nuclear power plants.

The state-run Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) struck a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in 2009 with Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited, and has been seeking to tap into the Indian market.

S. Korea to invest nearly 39 billion U.S. dollars to expand port infrastructure

SEOUL, July 25 (Xinhua) -- The South Korean government announced a plan to invest 41 trillion won (38.9 billion U.S. dollars) through 2020 to expand port infrastructure, news reports said Monday.

The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs said the investment will be used to build more piers at seaports in order to increase the country's annual cargo-processing capacity from 1. 21 billion tons to 1.81 billion tons per year.

The ministry expects the plan will raise the added value of the port industry from 20 trillion won to 40 trillion won a year by 2020, while boosting the number of seaport jobs from the current 480,000 to 1 million during the same period.

MOSCOW, July 25 (Xinhua) -- An Mi-8 helicopter with five people onboard crashed in east Russia on Monday, killing three and injuring the other two.

According to Itar-Tass news agency, an enine failure occurred when the helicopter was making a landing in Chukotka region. The plane crashed into the ground and caught fire.

Earlier this month, another Mi-8 helicopter, owned by Russia's UTAir airline, crashed while ferrying oil workers to a drilling site in Russian Siberia, killing two and injuring 14 others.