Laos, Vietnam Vowed To Cooperate On Border Security

VIENTIANE, Oct 27 (NNN-KPL) – The Lao and Vietnamese border guards, vowed to jointly crack down on smuggling, trade fraud, drug trafficking, illegal weapons and explosive material transactions, along their shared border. According to the Lao People’s Army News report yesterday, Director General of the Lao Border Military Department, Siphan…

Laos Seeks Ways To Tackle Air Pollution

VIENTIANE, Oct 27 (NNN-KPL) – Lao authorities from the forestry and environment sectors, discussed ways to tackle severe air pollution, which typically occurs at the start of the year, when farmers burn fields and scrubland prior to planting new crops. According to a report issued by the Lao Ministry of…

Indonesia’s Largest Mobile Operator Signs MoU With Huawei To Boost Digital Services

JAKARTA, Oct 27 (NNN-ANTARA) – President Director of Indonesia’s largest cellular operator, yesterday, appreciated the support offered by Huawei and expected to boost digital services, after signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Chinese telecom giant. Telkomsel and Huawei signed the MoU on Tuesday, to further explore and develop…

13 Killed As SUV Rams Into Truck In Karnataka

NEW DELHI, Oct 27 (NNN-PTI) – At least 13 people were killed yesterday, after an SUV rammed into a stationary tanker truck, in India’s south-western state of Karnataka, police said. The accident took place on the Bangalore-Hyderabad national highway, in Chikkaballapur district, about 62 km north of Bengaluru, the capital…

Sri Lanka Customs Expects To Collect Around 2.8 Billion USD In Taxes This Year

COLOMBO, Oct 27 (NNN-XINHUA) – Sri Lanka Customs, yesterday announced that, they expect to collect taxes worth 925 billion rupees (2.83 billion U.S. dollars) in 2023. Speaking to the media, Customs Director and media spokesman, Seevali Arukgoda, said that, between 2017 and this year, Sri Lanka Customs generated a revenue…

Two Workers Hospitalised After Radioactive Liquid Exposure At Fukushima Plant

TOKYO, Oct 27 (NNN-NHK) – Two men have been hospitalised, after they were accidentally splashed with radioactive liquid, at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the plant’s operator said yesterday. The two workers, one in his 20s and the other in his 40s, are employees of a partner firm…

Australian Tax System Not Fit For Aging Population: Experts

CANBERRA, Oct 27 (NNN-AAP) – Australia’s tax system is inadequate to properly fund government responsibilities, experts warned. In a speech to Canberra-based think tank, the Australia Institute’s Revenue Summit, at Parliament House today, former Department of Finance head, Michael Keating, called for a full-scale public review of the funding needed…

Japan Police Arrested Three Men On Suspicion Of Smuggling 113 Kg Of Illegal Drugs

TOKYO, Oct 27 (NNN-NHK) – Three foreign nationals from Mexico, have been arrested, on suspicion of smuggling around 113 kilograms of stimulant drugs, with a street value of about seven billion yen (47 million U.S. dollars), police in central Japan said, yesterday. Police in Toyama prefecture believe the three suspects,…

Ceremony Held In DPRK To Commemorate CPV’s Participation In War To Resist U.S. Aggression And Aid Korea

BEIJING, Oct 27 (NNN-XINHUA) – A ceremony to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the Chinese People’s Volunteers (CPV) entering the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), to fight in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, was held in Pyongyang, at the Friendship Tower. Kang Yun Sok, vice…

Only 62 Aid Trucks In Four Days Allowed Into Besieged Gaza: UN

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 27 (NNN-XINHUA) – Only 62 trucks passed through the Rafa crossing into Gaza in the last four days, when 500 trucks a day was the pre-war average, UN humanitarians said yesterday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said, the latest payloads of water,…