Brunei Issues Guidelines For Chinese New Year After Recording More Imported COVID-19 Cases

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Jan 29 (NNN-ANN) – The Brunei government yesterday released a direction for precautionary measures, during the upcoming Chinese New Year celebrations, after the country recorded four more imported cases of COVID-19. According to Brunei’s Ministry of Health, Chinese New Year celebrations in the sultanate should be held…

Three Injured As Blast Hits Police Van In Afghanistan’s Eastern Nangarhar

JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Jan 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Three policemen were injured, as a blast struck a police vehicle, in the Surkh Rod district of the eastern Nangarhar province today, provincial police spokesman, Farid Khan, said. The blast took place at around 11:00 a.m. local time. Targeted killing, mostly in the form…

ADB Sells 4.5-Billion-USD Five-Year Global Benchmark Bond

MANILA, Jan 28 (NNN-PNA) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB), announced today, it priced a 4.5-billion-U.S. dollar five-year global bond, proceeds of which will be part of ADB’s ordinary capital resources. The Manila-based bank said, the five-year bond, with a coupon rate of 0.5 percent per annum, payable semi-annually and…

Brunei-China Joint Petrochemical Venture Organises Blood Donation

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Jan 28 (NNN-ANN) – Hengyi Industries Sdn Bhd, a joint venture between China and Brunei, held a blood donation at its headquarters, at Pulau Muara Besar. According to a press release from Hengyi today, the blood donation was held in collaboration with Blood Donation Centre, Raja Isteri…

Housing For Southern Lao Flood Victims To Be Completed This Year

VIENTIANE, Jan 28 (NNN-KPL) – Some 496 of 700 planned new homes have been completed, for flood victims in southern Laos’ Attapeu province, and will be ready for residents this year. According to daily Vientiane Times, 496 new homes have now been built, for victims of the flood caused by…

India Gets 58.37 Billion USD As FDIs In Apr-Nov 2020

NEW DELHI, Jan 28 (NNN-PTI) – India received a total of 58.37 billion U.S. dollars, in terms of Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs), during Apr-Nov, 2020, which was 22 percent higher as compared to the FDIs in the first eight months of the previous financial year, said an official statement yesterday.…

Indonesia’s Mt. Merapi Spews Hot Clouds 36 Times

JAKARTA, Jan 28 (NNN-ANTARA) – Indonesia’s Mount Merapi spewed hot clouds 36 times, streaming down up to 3,000 metres, from about midnight to 2.00 p.m. local time yesterday, said the Geological Disaster Technology Research and Development Centre. The centre’s head, Hanik Humaira said, the hot clouds were heading southwest towards…

Delhi Police To Take Strict Action Against Culprits Of Violence During Farmers Protests

NEW DELHI, Jan 28 (NNN-PTI) – Delhi Police will take strict action against those found involved in the large-scale violence, that erupted on the streets of the national capital, during the tractors-rally by protesting farmers, said Commissioner of Police, S.N. Srivastava, yesterday. He said that a total of 19 persons…

Road Accident Leaves Nine Killed In Western Afghanistan

HERAT, Afghanistan, Jan 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Nine people were killed and two others injured, in a wagon-bus collision, in Afghanistan’s western Herat province yesterday (Wednesday), a local government spokesman said. The accident happened when a wagon hit head-on into a long-distance bus, coming from the opposite direction, along a provincial…

Japan’s PM Suga Holds First Phone Conversation With Biden

TOKYO, Jan 28 (NNN-NHK) – Japanese Prime Minister, Yoshihide Suga, spoke with new U.S. President, Joe Biden, via the phone today (Thursday), which was their first phone conversation, since the American leader was inaugurated last week. In the talks that lasted about 30 minutes, the two leaders affirmed the importance…