Airbus To Invest Over $5 Billion In Turkey By 2030

ANKARA, Oct 5 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Airbus is expected to invest around $2.5 billion in Turkey in 2020, and that figure will jump over $5 billion by 2030, Turkish Transport and Infrastructure Minister, Cahit Turhan, said. Turkey and Airbus have maintained a strong and successful collaboration in civilian and military aviation…

Five Dead, Four Injured In Wagon-Truck Collision In The Philippines

MANILA, Oct 5 (NNN-PNA) – Five people were killed and four others injured, in a collision between a wagon and a cargo truck, along a highway in Gumaca town in Quezon province before dawn on Saturday, police said. Police said, the crash happened at about 5:45 a.m. local time, when…

Families Sleep Through Landslide In Limbang, Sarawak

LIMBANG, Sarawak, Oct 5 (NNN-BP NEWS) – Five families in a big house at Kampung Bukit Kota, here, were shocked to see part of their house compound in a sea of mud, when they were rudely roused from sleep early yesterday morning. According to their spokesman, Dullah Tarip, 60, the…

Cambodia’s Top Court Upholds 25-Year Prison Term For Doctor Who Infected People With HIV

PHNOM PENH, Oct 5 (Xinhua) — Cambodia’s Supreme Court has upheld the decision of a lower court to sentence an unlicensed medical practitioner to 25 years in prison, for infecting over 200 villagers with HIV via the reuse of unclean needles. Yem Chrin, 60, was arrested in 2014 in northwestern…

ASEAN Ministers To Discuss Environment-Related Issues In Cambodia

PHNOM PENH, Oct 5 (NNN-AKP) – Environment ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), are due to meet in Cambodia next week, to discuss trans-boundary haze pollution and other environment-related issues, a Cambodian spokesman said today (Saturday). They will gather at the 15th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on the…

Stress-Ridden Judge In Southern Thailand Shoots Self In Chest

BANGKOK, Oct 5 (NNN-TNA) – A chief judge at a provincial court in southern Thailand, shot himself in the chest, but survived. Khanakorn Phianchana, the chief judge at Yala Provincial Court, was seriously injured and rushed to hospital, after he shot himself with his own handgun, in a courtroom. After…

Sri Lankan Court Rejects Legal Challenge Over Presidential Candidate’s Citizenship

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Oct 5 (NNN-SL NEWS) – A Sri Lankan court, on Friday, dismissed a legal case, challenging presidential candidate, Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s Sri Lankan citizenship, thereby allowing him to contest the upcoming presidential polls. A three-judge bench at the Court of Appeal, unanimously rejected the case that challenged the…

More Houses Damaged By Powerful Quake In Eastern Indonesia

JAKARTA, Oct 5 (NNN-ANTARA) — The Indonesian authorities have put the number of houses damaged by an earthquake of 6.5 magnitude on Sept 26, at over 6,000 units, in the country’s eastern Maluku province, with more than 100,000 people taking shelter, a disaster agency official said on Friday. These figures…

Clashes In Eastern Gaza With Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian

GAZA, Palestine, Oct 5 (NNN-WAFA) – At least one Palestinian was killed and 11 injured on Friday, by Israeli soldiers’ gunfire, during clashes with dozens of Palestinian demonstrators in eastern Gaza Strip, close to the border with Israel, medics said. Ashraf al-Qedra, spokesman of the health ministry in Gaza, told…

Cancer Patients In Lebanon On The Rise: Health Minister

BEIRUT, Oct 5 (NNN-NNA) – Lebanese Health Minister, Jamil Jabak, said, the number of cancer patients in Lebanon has increased by threefold in the past 15 years due to pollution, local media reported. “We hope that officials work hard on reducing the risks of getting exposed to cancer, by dealing…