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New Premier Li Keqiang unveils his new cabinet team as the National People's Congress plenary approaches its conclusion. Meanwhile, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying touches down in Beijing for meetings with new ministers and senior officials. The national legislature's session comes to an end tomorrow, after which Li will meet the press for the first time since taking office.

Zimbabweans vote on a new constitution approved by parliament that seeks to curb sweeping presidential powers while strengthening state institutions such as the cabinet and parliament. The referendum will pave the way for parliamentary and presidential elections in July. The constitution looks poised to be easily adopted, laying the groundwork for watershed polls to end an often acrimonious power-sharing deal between President Robert Mugabe and his nemesis Morgan Tsvangirai.