Thailand To See Intense Heat, Less Rainfall This Summer

BANGKOK, Feb 28 (NNN-TNA) – Thailand is set to brace for intense heat, with projected rainfall 20 percent below normal, throughout the summer this year, due to the El Nino weather pattern, according to the Thai Meteorological Department (TMD). The country officially entered its hot season last week, which will…

Japan Starts 4th Ocean Discharge Of Fukushima Nuclear-Tainted Wastewater Despite Opposition

TOKYO, Feb 28 (NNN-NHK) – Japan, today started the fourth-round of release of nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean. Despite opposition among local fishermen, residents, as well as, backlash from the international community, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the plant’s operator, started…

Gov’t Forces Killed Four Naxals In India’s Chhattisgarh

NEW DELHI, Feb 28 (NNN-PTI) – Four Naxals were killed in a fierce gunfight with the joint contingent of police and paramilitary troops yesterday, in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, police said. The gunfight broke out when government forces conducted a search operation in the forest area, in Jangla…

FAO Deputy Chief Warns Of Devastated Agricultural Infrastructure In Gaza

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 28 (NNN-XINHUA) – Maurizio Martina, deputy director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), warned yesterday that, the agricultural infrastructure in Gaza has been devastated. Martina highlighted at the UN Security Council meeting, on the protection of civilians in armed conflicts, the dire consequences for the region’s…

Egyptian FM Urged Regional Cooperation To Address Red Sea Threats

CAIRO, Feb 28 (NNN-MENA) – Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, yesterday stressed the need for regional efforts, to address the Red Sea tensions, during a meeting with his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. The two ministers met on the sidelines of the high-level segment of the 55th session of the United…

Egypt Made Airdrops Of Aid In Gaza

CAIRO, Feb 28 (NNN-MENA) – Egyptian air forces, airdropped humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip yesterday, Egypt’s Al-Qahera News TV reported. The report cited a high-level security source, who said, the airdrops, which were participated by the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, included food and medical supplies for the besieged…

Chinese Ship Rescued Six PNG Nationals Adrift In South Pacific For 37 Days

SYDNEY, Feb 28 (NNN-AAP) – Six people from Papua New Guinea (PNG), have been rescued by a Chinese fishing ship, after spending 37 days adrift in the South Pacific, the Chinese Embassy in Papua New Guinea said, yesterday. These people, including five adults and a nine-year-old boy, were in a…

Five Tonnes Caffeine Seized In Central Myanmar

YANGON, Feb 28 (NNN-MNA) – Myanmar authorities seized five tonnes of caffeine in central Myanmar’s Mandalay region, according to a statement released by the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC), yesterday. Acting on a tip-off, the anti-narcotics police searched a warehouse in Pyigyitagon township of Mandalay region, last Friday,…

India Unveils Astronaut-Designates For Its 1st Human Spaceflight

NEW DELHI, Feb 28 (NNN-PTI) – The Indian government, yesterday, unveiled four Indian Air Force (IAF) pilots, as astronaut-designates for the nation’s first human spaceflight mission, with the spacecraft Gaganyaan, scheduled for next year. Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, unveiled the astronauts during an event at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre…

Malaysia, Cambodia To Accelerate Economic Cooperation: Malaysian PM

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 28 (NNN-BERNAMA) – Malaysia and Cambodia have agreed to accelerate the progress of bilateral cooperation in several sectors, through its Joint Commission for Bilateral Cooperation (JCBC), Malaysian Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, said yesterday. There was still much potential in terms of boosting trade and investment between the…