Int’l Arrivals To Vietnam Nosedive 95.9 Percent In 2021

HANOI, Dec 30 (NNN-VNA) – Vietnam welcomed some 157,300 international arrivals in 2021, plunging 95.9 percent on year, mainly due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s General Statistics Office said yesterday. Foreign visitors entering the country by air accounted for 70.6 percent of the total, followed by road…

Vietnam Posts Four Billion USD In Trade Surplus In 2021

HANOI, Dec 30 (NNN-VNA) – Vietnam reported an estimated trade value of 668.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2021, up 22.6 percent year on year, with a trade surplus of four billion dollars, the General Statistics Office announced, yesterday. The export stood at 336.25 billion dollars, up 19 percent year on…

Triage Centre Opened In Main Hospital In Afghanistan’s Jalalabad

JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Dec 30 (NNN-ANA) – A triage centre has been opened in the main hospital in Jalalabad city, the capital of Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, the state-run Bakhtar news agency reported. The medical facility was built at a cost of 100,000 U.S. dollars, with the financial support from the…

Fiji Re-Tightens Border Restrictions For Foreign Travellers From Jan 1

SUVA, Dec 30 (NNN-PIN) – Fiji announced yesterday that, it will re-tighten its border restrictions for all foreign travellers from Jan 1, as more COVID-19 cases continue to be confirmed among foreign travellers coming to the island nation. According to a statement by Fiji’s Health Ministry, effective from Jan 1,…

Kyrgyzstan Elects New Parliament Speaker

BISHKEK, Dec 30 (NNN-KNA) – Deputies of the 7th convocation of the Kyrgyz Parliament, elected Talant Mamytov, as the new speaker of the parliament. The oath taking ceremony and the first meeting of the new parliament of Kyrgyzstan, took place yesterday. There were two candidates: Talant Mamytov, a deputy from…

Cambodia Vows To Strengthen ASEAN’s Centrality For Regional Peace, Security, Prosperity

PHNOM PENH, Dec 30 (NNN-AKP) – Cambodia, the incoming chair of ASEAN for 2022, vowed to strengthen ASEAN centrality, in order to maintain and uphold peace, security and prosperity, the country’s Foreign Minister, Prak Sokhonn, said yesterday. Speaking during a diplomatic briefing on Cambodia’s ASEAN Chairmanship in 2022, Sokhonn said,…

CPEC Serves As Flagship Of Development Strategy Of Pakistan: Minister

ISLAMABAD, Dec 30 (NNN-APP) – Pakistan’s Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, Asad Umar, said yesterday that, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), continues to be a flagship project of the overall development strategy of Pakistan. Speaking at an awarding ceremony for outstanding Pakistani staff of CPEC projects, Umar said…

UNICEF Delivery Of COVID-19 Vaccines To Bangladesh Exceeds 100 Million

DHAKA, Dec 30 (NNN-BSS) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said yesterday that, it had delivered over 100 million COVID-19 vaccines to Bangladesh, from multiple World Health Organisation (WHO)-approved manufacturers, since June, 2021. The threshold was passed after Bangladesh received a shipment of 20.46 million doses of vaccines from…

Lebanon Seizes Nine Million Captagon Pills Hidden In Orange Shipment

BEIRUT, Dec 30 (NNN-NNA) – The customs authorities at the Beirut port yesterday seized a shipment of oranges, hiding nine million captagon pills, destined for the Gulf region. Lebanese Interior Minister, Bassam Mawlawi, visited the Beirut port and inspected the shipment, shortly after its seizure, while assuring that Lebanon is…

Iraqi Security Forces Kill Five Daesh Militants In Eastern Iraq

BAGHDAD, Dec 30 (NNN-NINA) – The Iraqi security forces killed five militants of the extremist Daesh group, during a three-day security operation, in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala, the Iraqi military said yesterday. Yahia Rasoul, spokesperson of the commander-in-chief of the Iraqi forces, said, Iraqi forces, backed by Iraqi aircraft,…