Cambodia Encourages Businesspeople, Entrepreneurs, Producers To Participate In China-ASEAN Expo

PHNOM PENH, May 4 (NNN-AKP) – Cambodia encourages businesspeople, entrepreneurs, investors and producers to participate in the 22nd China-ASEAN Expo (CAEXPO), scheduled for Sept 17-21, in Nanning, capital city of south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, said a Ministry of Commerce’s statement, yesterday. The CAEXPO is a significant platform for…

India prohibits all imports from Pakistan

NEW DELHI, May 4 (NNN-PTI) – India, yesterday announced, a ban on all imports from Pakistan, saying, the restriction was imposed “in the interest of national security and public policy.” Tensions between India and Pakistan escalated, following a deadly attack on tourists in Pahalgam, in the Indian-controlled Kashmir, on Apr…

Yemen Appoints Finance Minister As New PM

ADEN, May 4 (NNN-SABA) – Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), appointed Finance Minister, Salem Saleh Bin Braik, as the country’s new prime minister yesterday, following the resignation of Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak. The decision came, just hours after Mubarak stepped down, citing constitutional constraints and obstacles that hindered his reform…

Hamas Releases Video Of Hostage Injured In Israeli Attack On Gaza

GAZA, May 4 (NNN-WAFA) – The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, released a new video yesterday, showing a hostage, who appeared to have been injured, in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip. The footage showed masked militants inside an underground tunnel, talking to the distressed-looking hostage. “I…

Ex-Labour Minister Elected Presidential Candidate For S. Korea’s People Power Party

SEOUL, May 4 (NNN-YONHAP) – Kim Moon-soo, former labour minister, was elected presidential candidate for South Korea’s conservative People Power Party, a TV footage showed, yesterday. Kim, who served as labour minister under the ousted President Yoon Suk-yeol government, won 56.53 percent of all votes cast in the party’s convention.…

Singapore’s Ruling People’s Action Party Secures Simple Majority In General Election

SINGAPORE, May 4 (NNN-XINHUA) – Singapore’s ruling People’s Action Party (PAP), has secured a simple majority, in yesterday’s general election, as Returning Officer, Han Kok Juan, announces results, constituency by constituency, early this morning. A total of 209 candidates from 11 political parties and coalitions, along with two independents, contested…

Japanese PM Expresses “Strong Disappointment” Over U.S. Auto Parts Tariff

TOKYO, May 4 (NNN-NHK) – Japanese Prime Minister, Shigeru Ishiba, yesterday, expressed his strong disappointment that a new 25 percent U.S. tariff on auto parts took effect earlier in the day. Ishiba told reporters that, Japan will continue to ask U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to reconsider its tariff measures.…

PM Albanese’s Labour Party wins Australian election, local media projects

CANBERRA, May 4 (NNN-AAP) – Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese’s centre-left Labour Party, has won a second term in power in Australia’s federal election, according to projections from the national public broadcaster. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) last night projected that Labour will win more of the 150 seats in the…

Stampede Claimed Six Lives In South-West India

NEW DELHI, May 3 (NNN-PTI) – At least six people died and over 30 were injured, when a stampede occurred during a religious festival, at a temple in India’s south-western state of Goa, in the early hours of today, confirmed a senior police officer. The stampede occurred at the Sree…

Nearly 17,000 Afghan Refugees Return Home From Pakistan, Iran In 4 Days

KABUL, May 3 (NNN-BNA) – A total of 3,172 Afghan families with 16,764 members returned to their homeland from neighbouring Iran and Pakistan, within the past four days, Afghanistan’s High Commission for Addressing Returnees Problems said, today. The immigrants have come home via the Torkham border crossing, in eastern Nangarhar…