Tourist Arrivals In Myanmar Doubled In Seven Months

YANGON, Nov 27 (NNN-MNA) – The number of tourists visiting Myanmar during the first seven months of the 2022-23 fiscal year (Apr, 2022-Mar, 2023), jumped by 99.48 percent year-on-year, data from the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism showed, yesterday. A total of 144,112 foreign visitors arrived in the country from…

Tokayev Sworn In As Kazakh President

ASTANA, Nov 27 (NNN-XINHUA) – Kassym-Jomart Tokayev was sworn in as the Kazakh leader, yesterday. After taking an oath at an inauguration ceremony, held in the capital city of Astana, Tokayev said, the country will enter a new era of development. Kazakhstan held a snap presidential race last Sunday, with…

Bomb Blast Killed Five Soldiers In Yemen’s Oil-Rich Shabwa

ADEN, Nov 27 (NNN-YPA) – At least five members of Yemen’s government forces were killed yesterday, in a bomb explosion, in the country’s southern oil-rich province of Shabwa, a security official said. “Suspected al-Qaeda gunmen targeted vehicles of the government forces, with an Improvised Explosive Device, in the western part…

Police Seized Smuggled Ammunition In SW Iran

TEHRAN, Nov 27 (NNN-TASNIM) – Iranian police seized a batch of smuggled ammunition, in the south-western city of Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province, it was reported yesterday. The report cited provincial police commander, Mohammad Salehi, as saying that, the country’s security and intelligence forces, identified the smuggler, who was carrying the arms…

Death Toll From Indonesia’s Earthquake Rose To 318

JAKARTA, Nov 27 (NNN-ANTARA) – The death toll from the devastating earthquake in Indonesia’s province of West Java rose to 318, with 14 others still missing, a senior official of the country’s disaster agency said, yesterday. The 5.6-magnitude quake hit West Java last Monday. Eight more bodies were recovered in…

Nine Terrorists Arrested In Separate Operations In Punjab

ISLAMABAD, Nov 27 (NNN-APP) – Nine terrorists were arrested, in separate intelligence-based operations, in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of the police said, yesterday. According to the CTD in Punjab, CTD personnel conducted the operations by acting on a tip-off, regarding the presence of terrorists in…

Road Accident Killed Three, Injured 38 In Eastern Uzbekistan

TASHKENT, Nov 27 (NNN-XINHUA) – Three people were killed and 38 others injured in a road accident, involving a bus and a truck, in the Andijan region, in eastern Uzbekistan, yesterday. The collision took place between the two vehicles on the Tashkent-Andijan highway, in the Andijan region, at approximately 8:10…

Iran Stepped Up Military Presence Near Iraqi Borders Against “Separatist” Threats

TEHRAN, Nov 26 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), has stepped up military presence near the western and north-western borders of the country, to deal with “separatist” threats, an IRGC commander said yesterday. Armoured IRGC units and special forces have been deployed, “to prevent the infiltration of terrorists,…

Proposed Australian Rocket Facility Poses Threat To Endangered Bird: Conservationists

CANBERRA, Nov 26 (NNN-AAP) – A planned rocket launch facility in South Australia (SA), poses an extinction-level threat, to an endangered bird species, conservationists warned. According to the Nature Conservation Society of SA, Southern Launch’s proposed rocket facility on the Eyre Peninsula – approximately 300 kilometres west of Adelaide –…

Sri Lanka Plans To End Power Cuts Next Year

COLOMBO, Nov 26 (NNN-XINHUA) – Sri Lanka’s Power and Energy Minister, Kanchana Wijesekera, today told journalists that, he will take all possible measures to ensure uninterrupted power supply by Jan, next year. Sri Lanka has been experiencing daily power cuts since Feb, 2022, and at one point the power cuts…