Mongolia’s Central Bank Maintains Interest Rate At 13 Percent

ULAN BATOR, Sept 17 (NNN-XINHUA) – The Mongolian central bank’s monetary policy council, decided to keep the benchmark interest rate unchanged at 13 percent, the Bank of Mongolia said. The decision was made, “given the current and future state of the economy and financial markets, external and internal uncertainties or…

China-ASEAN Expo Creates Synergies To Buoy Trade, Says Cambodian PM

PHNOM PENH, Sept 17 (NNN-AKP) – Cambodian Prime Minister, Hun Manet, said today that, the China-ASEAN Expo has created synergies to increase trade between the two sides. The Cambodian leader made the remarks, at the opening ceremony of the 20th China-ASEAN Expo in Nanning, capital of south China’s Guangxi Zhuang…

Freight Train Test Run On BRI Railway Via Padma Bridge Conducted In Bangladesh

DHAKA, Sept 17 (NNN-BSS) – A freight train trial run was conducted successfully yesterday, on a section of the railway built under the framework of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), via the Chinese-built Padma Bridge in Bangladesh. Syed Ahmed, project director of Bangladesh Railway’s Faridpur Rail Project, told…

Bangladesh’s Dengue Death Toll Exceeds 800

DHAKA, Sept 17 (NNN-BSS) – Over 800 people have died of dengue fever, out of 164,562 cases reported across Bangladesh so far this year, health department figures showed, yesterday. According to data released by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), under the Ministry of Health, the 804 deaths included…

Sainz Takes Pole For F1 Singapore GP As Red Bull Flounder

by F1 correspondent Michael Butterworth SINGAPORE, Sept 17 (NNN-XINHUA) – Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz took pole position for the 2023 F1 Singapore Grand Prix, as both Red Bulls sensationally failed to make the top-10 shootout for the first time since the 2018 Russian Grand Prix. Both Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez…

Brunei-China Cooperation In Various Fields Benefits Two Peoples: Crown Prince

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Sept 17 (NNN-XINHUA) – Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah, Crown Prince and Senior Minister at the Prime Minister’s Office of Brunei Darussalam, yesterday, had an audience with Chinese ambassador, Xiao Jianguo. The crown prince welcomed Xiao’s assumption of office and said that, the Brunei government will extend due support…

Earthquake Jolted Off Eastern Indonesia

JAKARTA, Sept 17 (NNN-ANTARA) – A 5.0-magnitude earthquake rocked off Indonesia’s eastern province of West Papua this morning, the country’s meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said. The earthquake occurred at 4:17 a.m. Jakarta time, today (2117 GMT Saturday), with its epicentre located 84 km north-east of Tambrauw district, with a…

Iran Seized Two Foreign Tankers Smuggling Fuel In Southern Waters

TEHRAN, Sept 17 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), seized two foreign tankers, carrying more than 1.5 million litres of smuggled fuel, in the country’s southern waters, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported. The Panama- and Tanzania-flagged tankers were seized by IRGC’s naval forces, stationed in the south-western…

Israeli Military Strikes Gaza Amid Palestinian Rally

GAZA, Sept 17 (NNN-WAFA) – The Israeli military said, it launched air raids on Gaza, after clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli police at the border, which wounded at least 12 Palestinians. No casualties among the Israelis were reported in the raids. The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said in a…

Lightning Strikes Killed Seven In Yemen

SANAA, Sept 17 (NNN-SABA) – Lightning strikes have killed seven people in Yemen’s north-western province of Hodeidah, in the past 24 hours, local health authorities said yesterday. The victims are six women and a man, in the Al-Luhayyah and Az-Zuhrah districts, in the northern part of the province. This is…