Singapore Reported 1,093 New COVID-19 Cases

SINGAPORE, Dec 22 (NNN-XINHUA) – Singapore reported 1,093 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday, bringing the total tally to 2,192,690. A total of 108 cases are currently warded in hospitals, with six of them held in intensive care units, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Health. No new deaths…

Aussie State To Confront Decade-High Bushfire Risk

SYDNEY, Dec 22 (NNN-AAP) – Local fire department in Australia’s New South Wales (NSW), said today that, it is exhausting all efforts to protect communities from the most significant grass fire risk, in more than a decade. According to a statement by Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW), two years of…

Brazil planning to become world’s largest cotton exporter, ahead of US

BRASILIA, Dec 22 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Brazil could become the world’s largest cotton exporter in 2023, because of an increase in the planted area helping it to surpass the United States, which could reduce sowing by 30% to make way for competing crops such as corn, soy, and wheat. Brazilian cotton…

Petrol Prices Down In Vietnam

HANOI, Dec 22 (NNN-VNA) – The petroleum prices in Vietnam have dropped for the fourth consecutive time, yesterday. The price of RON 95-III petrol went down 500 Vietnamese dong (0.02 U.S. dollars) per litre, to 20,700 Vietnamese dong (0.88 dollars) per litre, from yesterday. Meanwhile, the retail price of E5…

Japan Reported 206,943 New COVID-19 Cases Amid Eighth Wave Of Infections

TOKYO, Dec 22 (NNN-NHK) – Japan’s health ministry and local governments, said, 206,943 people had been newly infected with the COVID-19 virus nationwide, according to the latest figures released yesterday, as the country grapples with an eighth wave of infections. This is an increase of 16,100 new cases from the…

Indonesia Started Implementation Of Second-Home Visa To Attract Foreign Investors

JAKARTA, Dec 22 (NNN-ANTARA) – Indonesia’s Second-Home Visa, allowing foreigners to stay in the country for either five or 10 years, began to take effect yesterday. Minister for Law and Human Rights, Yasonna Laoly, announced the scheme coming into effect, which aims to attract business people and investors from around…

Japan, UNICEF donate medical equipment to Cuba

HAVANA, Dec 22 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — As part of a project promoted by Japan and UNICEF to strengthen health capacities to fight off Covid-19 in Cuba, a medical equipment donation was sent on Wednesday to a Cuban health institution.     Lidia and Clodomira polyclinic, based in Havana’s Regla municipality, received brand-new…

Bangladesh’s Largest Housing Show Kicked Off In Dhaka

DHAKA, Dec 22 (NNN-BSS) – The largest annual show of the apex body of Bangladesh’s hundreds of realtors, kicked off here yesterday, to showcase flats, plots and other real estate and housing products. Organised by the country’s biggest real estate association, Real Estate and Housing Association of Bangladesh (REHAB), the…

Covid-19: WHO chief ‘very concerned’ about situation in China

 GENEVA, Dec  22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The head of the World Health Organization said he was “very concerned” about an unprecedented wave of Covid cases in China, urging Beijing to provide detailed information about the severity of the situation.  “WHO is very concerned over the evolving situation in China,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a weekly…

Iran Ready To Take Final Steps For Nuclear Agreement If Red Lines Respected: FM

TEHRAN, Dec 22 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, said yesterday that, if the red lines of the Islamic Republic are respected, Iran is ready to take final steps to reach an agreement on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal. He said that, there was an opportunity to…
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