Indonesia Approves Emergency Use Of China’s Zifivax COVID-19 Vaccine

JAKARTA, Oct 8 (NNN-ANTARA) – Indonesia’s drug and food authority BPOM, said yesterday, it has issued an emergency use authorisation (EUA) for the Zifivax COVID-19 vaccine, produced by Chinese biopharmaceutical company, Anhui Zhifei Longcom. “Today, BPOM again announces that we have approved a COVID-19 vaccine product under the trade name…

26 Israelis Arrested In Joint Operation With FBI For Alleged Forex Fraud

JERUSALEM, Oct 7 (NNN-PNN) – Israeli police said yesterday that, 26 Israelis were arrested, on suspicion of massive fraud, related to foreign exchange cryptocurrency transactions, in a joint operation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The suspects allegedly conned “tens of millions of shekels” (millions of U.S. dollars) from…

Palestine, Egypt Discuss Peace Process With Israel

RAMALLAH, Oct 7 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, and his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, yesterday discussed by telephone, the readiness to resume peace and achieve calm with Israel. The official Palestinian news agency said that, Abbas explained to al-Sisi the Palestinian side’s readiness to act under the auspices of…

Philippine Vice President Robredo To Run In 2022 Presidential Elections

MANILA, Oct 7 (NNN-PNA) – Philippine Vice President, Maria Leonor Robredo, said today that, she will run for president in the May 2022 elections, in the country. “I will fight. We will fight. I am running for president in the 2022 elections,” Robredo, 56, said in an online announcement. The…

Foreign Direct Investment In S.Korea Grows 41.3 Percent From Jan To Sept

SEOUL, Oct 7 (NNN-YONHAP) – Foreign direct investment (FDI) into South Korea logged a double-digit growth in the first nine months of this year, on expectations for economic recovery, a government report showed today. The FDI amounted to 18.21 billion U.S. dollars in the Jan-Sept period, up 41.3 percent from…

Mongolia Logs 2,237 New COVID-19 Cases, 15 More Deaths

ULAN BATOR, Oct 7 (NNN-XINHUA) – Mongolia’s COVID-19 infections grew by 2,237 to 319,247 in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said today. The latest confirmed cases were all local infections, and nearly half of them were detected in the capital city of Ulan Bator, the country’s hardest-hit area,…

Blast In Afghanistan’s Khost Province Kills One, Wounds 17

KHOST, Afghanistan, Oct 7 (NNN-ANA) – One person has been confirmed dead and 17 others were injured, as an explosive device went off at a religious school, in Khost city, capital of eastern Khost province yesterday, a provincial official said today. The official, Mawlawi Mohammad Sabir Sabari, said, the blast…

Australian Researchers Urge Government To Stop Sandalwood Commercial Harvesting

SYDNEY, Oct 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Australian sandalwood, one of the most valuable timbers in the world, is facing extinction in the wild, while the iconic outback tree is still being harvested in the state of Western Australia (WA). Researchers from Charles Sturt University and Curtin University are urging the WA…

Indonesia Conducts Flight Test Using Biofuel

JAKARTA, Oct 7 (NNN-ANTARA) – Indonesia has successfully conducted a flight test with a medium-range twin-engined transport aircraft, using bio-aviation turbine fuel, bioavtur J2.4. Bioavtur J2.4 is a mixed bioavtur fuel, of which 2.4 percent is biofuel made from refined palm oil. “Now we see a new history … We…

India’s COVID-19 Tally Rises To 33,894,312, Death Toll Nears 450,000

NEW DELHI, Oct 7 (NNN-PTI) – India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 33,894,312 today, with 22,431 new confirmed cases registered in the past 24 hours across the country, the federal health ministry’s latest data showed. An additional 318 deaths from the pandemic since yesterday morning took the total death toll to…