Anwar-Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah personal ties will help expedite implementation of Malaysia-Brunei programmes

From Kamarul Ariffin Md Yassin BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Jan 25 (NNN-Bernama) — Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim believes that his personal ties with Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah will help expedite the implementation of the various plans and programmes involving Malaysia and Brunei. “When two country leaders have a very strong friendship…and have plans…

Singapore’s core inflation at 5.1 pct in December, averaged 4.1 pct for 2022

SINGAPORE, Jan 25 (NNN-Bernama) — Singapore’s core inflation came in at 5.1 per cent a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis in December, unchanged from November, according to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the republic’s Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI). “Smaller price increases for retail and other goods and electricity and gas were offset by…

Heavy Snow, Powerful Winds Disrupt Transportation In Japan

TOKYO, Jan 25 (NNN-NHK) – Heavy snow and powerful winds are continuing to affect many parts of Japan today, with the stormy conditions disrupting a number of transportation systems. As wide swathes of the country are in the grip of the coldest seasonal front in a decade, railway operators on…

Over One Million Tourists Travelled In Cambodia During Lunar New Year: Minister

PHNOM PENH, Jan 25 (NNN-AKP) – Cambodia recorded about 1.04 million domestic and foreign tourists, during the celebrations of the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival, Tourism Minister, Thong Khon, said today. Some one million locals and 42,056 foreigners travelled in the nation during the festival, from Jan…

Philippine Air Force Plane Crashed In Philippines, Two Dead

MANILA, Jan. 25 (NNN-PNA) – A Philippine Air Force (PAF) plane, crash-landed in Bataan province, during a training flight today, a military spokesperson said. PAF spokesperson, Consuelo Castillo, said in a statement that, an SF260 aircraft with two pilots on board went down in Bataan province, west of Manila, around…

Top Pakistan politician Fawad Chaudhry arrested

By Shakir Husain NEW DELHI, Jan 25 (NNN-Bernama) — Pakistani police have arrested prominent politician Fawad Chaudhry, a leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and former federal minister. Fawad, who served as a minister under former prime minister Imran Khan, was arrested for “inciting violence against a constitutional institution”, Pakistani…

Four Children Killed, Two Women Injured In Gas Explosion In SW Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Jan 25 (NNN-APP) – Four children were killed and two women injured, in an explosion caused by gas leakage, in a house in Quetta city of Pakistan’s south-west Balochistan province, today, local reports said. The incident happened when one member of the family tried to light a heater, without…

Landslide Killed Mineworker In Afghanistan’s Badakhshan Province

FAIZABAD, Afghanistan, Jan 25 (NNN-ANA) – A mineworker lost his life in a mudslide, in Afghanistan’s northern Badakhshan province yesterday, provincial director of information and culture, Qari Maazudin Ahmadi said today. The incident occurred in the Yawan district of the province on Monday afternoon, when some miners were busy digging,…

Poliovirus Detected In Environmental Sample In Punjab

ISLAMABAD, Jan 25 (NNN-APP) – Pakistan’s first sample of wild poliovirus in 2023 has been detected, in an environmental sample in Lahore, capital of the country’s eastern Punjab province, the Pakistani Health Ministry said. The virus, found in a sewage sample of the Gulshan Ravi area of the city, has…

S. Korea’s Foreign Currency Deposit Hit Record High In Dec

SEOUL, Jan 25 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea’s foreign currency deposit hit a record high last month, as companies placed more U.S. dollar-fund in bank accounts, central bank data showed, today. Deposit, denominated in foreign currencies, came in at 110.98 billion U.S. dollars, at the end of Dec, up 3.59 billion…
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