40 Percent Of Japanese Youth Want Gov’t To Make Higher Education Free: Survey

TOKYO, May 7 (NNN-NHK) – A recent survey of Japanese youth between the ages of 10 and 18, shows 40 percent want the government to put making higher education free, a top priority of its policies for children. The online survey, conducted by the Nippon Foundation, covered 10,000 individuals in…

Faded glory: exploring cultural legacy of Lucknow

Delhi Diary by Shakir Husain (Bernama’s correspondent in New Delhi Shakir Husain writes on his recent visit to Lucknow, a fabled Indian city with its incredible history and cultural legacy that dates back to the glorious days of the Nawabs.) LUCKNOW (India), May 7 (NNN-Bernama) — Lucknow, known as the City of…

Philippines Tightens Protocols For Citizens Departing For Southeast Asia Amid Human Trafficking

MANILA, May 7 (NNN-PNA) – The Philippines’ Bureau of Immigration, yesterday, ordered its officers at airports, to strictly monitor Filipinos departing for Southeast Asian countries, to prevent them from falling victim to human traffickers. In the wake of the new human trafficking schemes continuing to emerge within the Southeast Asian…

Three Malaysians stranded in Sudan arrived home

SEPANG (Malaysia), May 7 (NNN-Bernama) — A Malaysian mother and her two children who were trapped in the Al Gaza region for 22 days, due to the conflict in Sudan, arrived home Sunday. Junaidah Selamat , 49, and her children, son Mohamad Ashraf, 18, and daughter Juliana Ashraf, 23, arrived at…

Rainstorm, Flash Floods Killed Four, Injured 25 In E.Afghanistan

JALALABAD, Afghanistan, May 7 (NNN-ANA) – Heavy rains and flash floods killed four people and injured 25 others, in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, said a statement of the provincial government, released here yesterday. Heavy rains, which triggered flash floods in the province on Friday night, killed four people, including three…

India Sounded Alert In Wake Of Cyclone Mocha

NEW DELHI, May 7 (NNN-PTI) – India Meteorological Department (IMD), yesterday sounded an alert, in the wake of a cyclonic circulation formed, and lay over the south-east Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood, forecasting heavy rainfall from next week, over the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Cyclone Mocha, the first cyclonic storm…

Four Killed, Five Injured In Road Accidents In Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, May 7 (NNN-APP) – At least four people were killed and five others injured, yesterday, in two separate road accidents in Pakistan, rescue service reported. Three people were killed and two others injured, after a car fell into a deep ditch near Attabad Lake in Hunza Valley, in Pakistan’s…

SEA Games: welcome relief as Malaysian contingent breaks medal duck

PHNOM PENH, May 7 (NNN-Bernama) — A day after SEA Games 2023 officially raised its curtains, the national contingent can heave a sigh of relief after securing medals Saturday.   This was because the national camp had found itself coming up short as other competing nations took an early lead in the medal tally.  The 12 medals…

Brits in Malaysia celebrate King Charles III’s historic coronation

By Rosmalis Anuar KUALA LUMPUR, May 7 (NNN-Bernama) — It was a memorable moment for the British community in Malaysia as they joined millions around the world witnessing the historic coronation ceremony of King Charles III on Saturday. In a viewing party held by the British High Commissioner to Malaysia Charles…

India’s Manipur Violence Death Toll Rose To 54

NEW DELHI, May 7 (NNN-PTI) – The death toll in the ongoing violence in India’s north-eastern state of Manipur rose to 54, yesterday. The authorities are tightlipped over the death toll in the ongoing violence, and have not issued any official statement. On Thursday, Manipur Chief Minister, N. Biren Singh,…
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