Netanyahu’s Speech About Returning Hostages “A Complete Lie,” Hamas Says

GAZA, Jul 25 (NNN-WAFA) – Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to U.S. Congress, about intensified efforts to return the hostages is “a complete lie, and misleading Israeli, American and international public opinion,” said Hamas, yesterday. Netanyahu is “the one who thwarted all efforts aimed at ending the war, and…

Cambodia Arrested Two Foreigners For Drug Trafficking

PHNOM PENH, Jul 25 (NNN-AKP) – Cambodian police have arrested two foreigners for trafficking illicit drugs, an anti-drug police official said, yesterday. Lieutenant General Kheoung Sarath, director of the National Police’s Anti-Drug Department, said, the two male suspects, aged 41 and 42, were apprehended at two locations in the capital,…

Thailand Expects Digital Wallet Handout Scheme Will Boost Economy

BANGKOK, Jul 25 (NNN-TNA) – The Thai government is banking on a digital wallet handout scheme, will boost the country’s sluggish economy, due to low incomes and high household debts, a senior official said, yesterday. The handout of 10,000 baht (278 U.S. dollars) per head, to 50 million eligible Thai…

Tokyo Gov’t Not Informed Of At Least Three U.S. Military-Related Sex Crime Cases

TOKYO, Jul 25 (NNN-NHK) – The local government of Japan’s Tokyo metropolitan area, was not informed of at least three cases of sexual crime, committed by individuals associated with the U.S. military, between 2021 and 2023, Japanese daily Mainichi Shimbun, reported yesterday. The revelation came, after the Mainichi Shimbun queried…

Update: 18 Bodies Recovered Following Plane Crash At Kathmandu Airport

KATHMANDU, Jul 24 (NNN-XINHUA) – Eighteen dead bodies have been recovered, after a plane crashed today, at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital, said Hansa Raj Pandey, spokesman at the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN). Pandey told Xinhua that, one injured person has been hospitalised, and the…

Typhoon Buffets Philippines, Killing At Least Eight

MANILA, Jul 24 (NNN-PNA) – The Metro Manila Council has officially declared a state of calamity, in the National Capital Region today, as rains from the enhanced south-west monsoon brought by Typhoon Gaemi caused flooding in various parts of the Philippine capital. The widespread flooding, seven feet deep in some…

Plane Crashed At International Airport In Kathmandu

KATHMANDU, Jul 24 (NNN-XINHUA) – A plane crashed this afternoon, at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal’s captial, billowing smoke into the air, an eyewitness said. Report will follow.– NNN-XINHUA  

ASEAN Senior Officials Gather In Vientiane To Discuss Key Issues

VIENTIANE, Jul 24 (NNN-KPL) – Representatives from the member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), gathered in Lao capital Vientiane, to review and discuss key issues in the region. The representatives gathered for the ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM). ASEAN senior officials attended the meeting yesterday, to…

Cambodia Urges People Not To Eat Unfamiliar Mushrooms After 17 Fall Ill

PHNOM PENH, Jul 24 (NNN-AKP) – Cambodia’s Ministry of Health, today, appealed to people not to consume unknown mushrooms, after 17 people have been hospitalised in north-eastern Ratanakiri province. The patients, who live in Ou Ya Dav district’s Loum village, were admitted to a local health centre and a hospital…

Killings Leave 26 People Dead In Papua New Guinea: Media

SYDNEY, Jul 24 (NNN-AAP) – Local media reported today that, a mass killing spree left at least 26 people, including women and children, dead, in Papua New Guinea (PNG)’s East Sepik Province. According to the National, a spate of killings, rape and burning down of properties, took place across the…