CPEC Brings Pakistan Billions In Direct Investment

BEIJING, Sept 24 (NNN-XINHUA) – The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), brought Pakistan direct investment totaling 25.4 billion U.S. dollars, over the past eight years, a senior official with China’s economic planner said. The corridor, a flagship project of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), also created many job opportunities,…

Turkey’s Struggle Against Daesh Successful, Amid Potential Threat: Expert

ISTANBUL, Sept 24 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkey has been “successfully” continuing its fight against the Daesh, which targeted the country with a series of deadly terror attacks since 2015, “amid high potential threat,” a security expert said, yesterday. “At present, threat of radicalism conceptually exists in this geography,” Abdullah Agar, a…

UN Starts Emergency Plan To Deal With Fuel Shortage In Lebanon’s Hospitals

BEIRUT, Sept 24 (NNN-NNA) – The United Nations, yesterday kicked off a three-month emergency plan, to provide fuel to all public hospitals, primary health care centres and dispensaries servicing the most vulnerable communities in different regions of Lebanon. “The plan aims to maintain critical health, water and sanitation services, for…

Nepal Resumes On-Arrival Visas For Foreign Tourists

KATHMANDU, Sept 24 (NNN-XINHUA) – Nepal yesterday resumed the on-arrival visa service to foreign tourists, fully vaccinated against COVID-19, with a view to reviving the tourism sector. In a travel advisory to be effective immediately, Nepal’s Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, said, foreign tourists would be able to…

Brunei’s Economic Growth Projected At 3.5 Percent Next Year

Azlan Othman BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Sept 23 (NNN-ANN) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) projected Brunei’s economic growth at 3.5 percent next year, compared to three percent predicted earlier. The Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2021 published yesterday, also stated that, Brunei’s economic growth is trimmed to 1.8 percent in the…

Financial Situation In Palestine Likely To Get More Complicated

RAMALLAH, Sept 23 (NNN-WAFA) – The financial situation of the Palestinian Authority (PA) is likely to get more complicated, unless Israel stops holding its tax revenue dues, Palestinian Finance Minister, Shukri Bishara, warned yesterday. “If Israel doesn’t release the money that it holds in the coming weeks, the financial situation…

Malaysia’s Tourism Receipts Plunge 71.2 Percent To 12.51 Billion USD

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 23 (NNN-BERNAMA) – Malaysia’s tourism receipts in 2020 slumped 71.2 percent to 52.4 billion ringgit (about 12.51 billion U.S. dollars) from a year ago, as the COVID-19 pandemic dragged the industry, official data showed today. The travel restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19 affected Malaysia’s tourism…

Bank Of Japan Maintains Ultra-Easy Monetary Policy Amid COVID-19

TOKYO, Sept 23 (NNN-NHK) – The Bank of Japan (BOJ) yesterday decided to maintain its ultra-easy monetary policy, after a policy-setting conference, in order to support the economy amid tough measures against COVID-19. At the two-day meeting that ended yesterday, the Japanese central bank decided to place short-term interest rates…

Pakistan Records 2,333 New COVID-19 Cases, 1,230,238 In Total

ISLAMABAD, Sept 23 (NNN-APP) – Pakistan reported 2,333 new COVID-19 cases yesterday, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) said. The overall tally of the infected people climbed to 1,230,238 across the country, the department, leading Pakistan’s campaign against the pandemic, said. Pakistan’s southern Sindh province has been the worst…

India’s COVID-19 Tally Rises To 33,563,421

NEW DELHI, Sept 23 (NNN-PTI) – India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 33,563,421 today, as 31,923 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, the federal health ministry’s latest data showed. As many as 282 deaths since yesterday morning, took the total death toll to 446,050. Most…