Indonesian, Chinese Institutions Sign MoU To Enhance Vocational Education

JAKARTA, Oct 12 (NNN-ANTARA) – Indonesia’s higher education institutions, along with China’s companies and a vocational institution, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), on vocational education collaboration, yesterday. The signing was witnessed by the Education and Culture Attache of the Indonesian Embassy in Beijing, Yudil Chatim, during Southeast Asia’s largest…

Aid Entering Gaza At Lowest Level In Months: UN

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 12 (NNN-XINHUA) – Aid entering Gaza is at its lowest level in months, and no one in Gaza has received food parcels this month, due to constrained access of aid supplies, a UN spokesman said, yesterday. Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the UN secretary-general, said, the World…

Hundreds Killed, Hundreds More Injured As Regime Army Continues Offensives In Lebanon, Gaza

BEIRUT/GAZA, Oct 12 (NNN-NNA/WAFA) – The bloodthirsty Zionist regime continued to pursue people in Lebanon and Gaza Strip, pressing forward with its military objectives on the two fronts. On Thursday evening, the Zionist regime launched heavy airstrikes on central Beirut, targeting Wafiq Safa, head of Hezbollah’s Liaison and Coordination Unit.…

Iran Condemns Israeli Airstrike On Field Hospital As “War Crime”

TEHRAN, Oct 11 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Esmaeil Baghaei, condemned today, Israel’s airstrike on an Iranian field hospital, along the Syria-Lebanon border, calling it a “war crime.” In a statement, Baghaei criticizsed the Israeli regime for targeting the 56-bed hospital, operated by the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS),…

Mongolia Exported Nearly 60 Million Tonnes Of Coal In Three Quarters

ULAN BATOR, Oct 11 (NNN-APA) – Mongolia exported a total of 59.1 million tonnes of coal in the first three quarters of this year, official data showed, today. The figure represented a 1.3-fold increase compared to the same period last year. Coal is a key export commodity for Mongolia, a…

Japan’s Police Chief Orders Thorough Protection Of Key Election Figures

TOKYO, Oct 11 (NNN-NHK) – The chief of Japan’s National Police Agency (NPA), called on officers across the country, to thoroughly protect important figures in the upcoming general election, local media reported. NPA Commissioner General, Yasuhiro Tsuyuki, made the request at a meeting of top prefectural police officers, at the…

East Asia Summit Calls For Cooperation To Foster Mutual Trust

VIENTIANE, Oct 11 (NNN-KPL) – The 19th East Asia Summit (EAS), was held in the Lao capital, Vientiane, today, with focus on strengthening cooperation under the EAS framework, to foster mutual understanding and mutual trust. Addressing the summit, Lao Prime Minister, Sonexay Siphandone, said, the EAS is inseparable from the…

Local Elections Begin In Mongolia

ULAN BATOR, Oct. 11 (NNN-APA) – Voting for local elections began in Mongolia today. The vote kicked off at 8.00 a.m. local time, and will last until 8.00 p.m., at 2,230 polling stations in the national capital of Ulan Bator, and all of 21 provinces, according to the General Election…

5.3-Magnitude Quake Hit Central Myanmar

YANGON, Oct 11 (NNN-MNA) – A 5.3-magnitude earthquake, jolted central Myanmar at about 11:10 a.m. local time today, the country’s Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH) reported. According to the DMH, the epicentre was determined to be eight km to the south-west of Thabeikkyin town, in Mandalay Region. The earthquake,…

S. Korean Author Han Kang Wins Nobel Prize In Literature

STOCKHOLM, Oct 11 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korean author, Han Kang, has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy announced, yesterday. The announcement made Han the first South Korean writer to win this prestigious honour. The academy praised her “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical…