Majority Of Filipinos Satisfied With Duterte’s Performance As President

MANILA, Feb 10 (NNN-PNA) – Three-quarters of Filipinos expressed their approval to President Rodrigo Duterte’s performance in the last quarter of 2021, according to an independent poll released yesterday. The Social Weather Station survey, conducted nationwide on Dec 12-16, found that 75 percent of the 1,440 adult Filipinos said, they…

Deputy PM Says No Room For Kangaroo Court In Afghanistan

KABUL, Feb 10 (NNN-ANA) – Deputy Prime Minister of the Taliban-led caretaker government, Abdul Salam Hanafi, said that, no one in the government had the right to hold kangaroo court in Afghanistan, the state-run news agency, Bakhtar, reported yesterday. At a meeting with Deborah Lyons, special representative of the UN…

Japan Battles “Unprecedented” Increase Of COVID-19 Cases Among Elders

TOKYO, Feb 10 (NNN-NHK) – The Tokyo metropolitan government said, elderly people are contracting COVID-19 at an “unprecedented” rate as the Omicron variant runs rampant across Japan. Patients aged 65 or above comprised 8.5 percent of the 127,357 new infections reported in Tokyo for the week, according to official figures.…

UN, Partners Dispatch Aid As Heavy Snow, Avalanches Kill 17 In Afghanistan

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) – The United Nations, its partners and local authorities in Afghanistan, have sent teams to aid families of the 17 people reportedly killed in heavy snowfall and avalanches, UN humanitarians said, yesterday. The partners sent two mobile health teams to the Kunar province site in…

Indonesia Seeks 8.58 Billion USD Investment To Close Coal-Fired Power Plants

JAKARTA, Feb 10 (NNN-ANTARA) – Indonesia is seeking 8.58 billion U.S. dollars in investment, to shut down a number of coal-fired power plants, as the country is currently expediting the transition into green energy. The country’s coordinating minister for maritime and investment affairs, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, said at the Mandiri…

India’s FDI increases over past Five years: official

NEW DELHI, Feb 10 (NNN-PTI) – The Indian government, yesterday said, foreign direct investment (FDI), has shown a continuous increase over the past five years, in the country. “FDI has shown a continuous increase from 45.15 billion U.S. dollars in 2014-15, to 81.97 billion U.S. dollars in 2020-21,” Indian federal…

Four Killed In Roadside Bomb Explosion In Western Iraq

BAGHDAD, Feb 10 (NNN-NINA) – Three Iraqi soldiers and a civilian were killed yesterday, in a roadside bomb explosion, in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, a security source said. The incident took place in the morning, when a roadside bomb detonated near a vehicle carrying soldiers, on a highway near…

Israel Strikes Syria In Response To Anti-Aircraft Missile Fire

JERUSALEM, Feb 9 (NNN-PNA) – Israel struck targets in Syria today, in response to an anti-aircraft missile launched from Syria, which exploded in mid-air, the Israeli army said. Sirens were heard in the Arab city of Umm al-Fahm, in northern Israel, as well as, in the occupied West Bank, the…

ADB Approves Two Million USD Grant To Help Typhoon Victims In Philippines

MANILA, Feb 9 (NNN-PNA) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB), said today, it has approved a 2-million-U.S.-dollar grant, to support the Philippines’ emergency response, to the devastation in central and southern provinces, caused by Typhoon Rai. Typhoon Rai, the 15th and the strongest of last year, that made landfall in…

Japanese Princess Yoko Suffers Pneumonia After Testing Positive For COVID-19

TOKYO, Feb 9 (NNN-NHK) – Japan’s Imperial Household Agency, said today that, 38-year-old Princess Yoko, who has tested positive for COVID-19, is suffering from pneumonia. Princess Yoko, the first member of the imperial family to test positive for COVID-19, was taken to the University of Tokyo Hospital, from a hospital…