Malaysia Reported 3,537 New COVID-19 Infections, Eight More Deaths

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 24 (NNN-BERNAMA) – Malaysia reported 3,537 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight, bringing the national total to 4,975,473, according to the Health Ministry. There are seven new imported cases, with 3,530 cases being local transmissions, data released on the ministry’s website showed. Another eight deaths of the…

S.Korea Raised Interest Rate By 25 Basis Points To 3.25 Percent

SEOUL, Nov 24 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea’s central bank, today raised the interest rate by 25 basis points, delivering six back-to-back rate hikes for the first time. Bank of Korea (BOK) Governor, Rhee Chang-yong, and other monetary policymakers, decided to lift the benchmark seven-day repurchase rate from 3.00 percent to…

Indian Gov’t To Send High-Level Teams To Tackle Measles Cases

NEW DELHI, Nov 24 (NNN-PTI) – The Indian government said yesterday, it will send high-level teams to three states – Jharkhand, Gujarat and Kerala – to assess and manage an increase in the number of measles cases among children, officials said. According to the health and family welfare ministry, the…

Two More Palestinians Shot By Israeli Soldiers Died: Medics

RAMALLAH, Nov 24 (NNN-WAFA) – Two more Palestinians died yesterday, of the wounds sustained from Israeli soldiers’ gunfire, around the northern West Bank city of Nablus, said the Palestinian Ministry of Health, in a press statement. Mohammad Herzallah, 30, died four months after being shot, in an Israeli army force…

Germany In Shock After Defeat In World Cup Opener Against Japan

by Oliver Trust BERLIN, Nov 24 (NNN-XINHUA) – It was an unpleasant trip in complete silence for the German team, back to the team’s hotel in the north of Qatar. Everyone of the 110 kilometres seemed endlessly long, as the 2014 world champions found themselves in a state of shock,…

Chinese Defence Minister Spoke At 9th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Plus, In Cambodia

SIEM REAP, Nov 24 (NNN-AKP) – Chinese State Councillor and Defence Minister, Wei Fenghe, yesterday delivered a speech at the 9th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Plus (ADMM-Plus), here in north-west Cambodia’s Siem Reap province. Wei said, the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which recently closed,…

India’s IT Industry Freezes On Fresh Hiring, Amid Facebook, Twitter Layoffs

by Pankaj Yadav NEW DELHI, Nov 24 (NNN-XINHUA) – The recent layoffs in companies like Facebook and Twitter, may cast a shadow on the information technology (IT) or software firms in India, particularly those which cater to outsourced works from foreign-based companies. Over the past couple of weeks, while Meta,…

Senior Iranian Military Adviser Killed In Syria

TEHRAN, Nov 24 (NNN-IRNA) – A senior adviser from Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), has been killed in Syria, the IRGC said in a statement, yesterday. Davood Jafari, an officer of the IRGC’s Air Force, was killed by a roadside bomb, near the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Tuesday, it…

New Zealand Increased Official Cash Rate To Highest Level Since 2008

WELLINGTON, Nov 24 (NNN-XINHUA) – New Zealand, yesterday, increased the Official Cash Rate (OCR) to its highest level since Dec, 2008, with the rise of 75 basis points, also the biggest hike since 1999. The Monetary Policy Committee of the New Zealand Reserve Bank (RBNZ), increased the OCR from 3.5…

World’s Largest Offshore Wind Turbine Off Assembly Line In China

FUZHOU, Nov 23 (NNN-XINHUA) – A giant offshore wind turbine, with the world’s largest per-unit capacity, has moved off the production line in east China’s Fujian Province. The 16-megawatt wind turbine is equipped with a 146-metre hub, equal to the height of a 50-storey building, and has the world’s longest…