Asia

Australia Facing Medical Workforce Shortage: Universities

CANBERRA, May 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Extra medical students are needed to avert a looming workforce crisis, top Australian universities warned.…

New Zealand Reports 7,347 New Community Cases Of COVID-19

WELLINGTON, May 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) – New Zealand recorded 7,347 new community cases of COVID-19, the ministry of health said today.…

5.3-Magnitude Quake Hits 77 Km ESE Of Bobon, Philippines

HONG KONG, May 6 (NNN-PNA) – An earthquake, with a magnitude of 5.3, jolted 77 km ESE of Bobon, Philippines,…

Nigerian customs seizes over 1,000 bags of poisonous foreign rice, imported from India

The parboiled rice was smuggled into the country through the Benin Republic ABUJA, May 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Nigeria Customs…

Floods Kill Eight, Wound Over Dozens In Afghanistan’s Baghlan, Badghis Provinces

PUL-E-KHUMRI, Afghanistan, May 6 (NNN-ANA) – Eight people have been confirmed dead and 13 others injured, as floods swept parts…

Russia-Ukraine conflict: France and India call for immediate end to hostilities

 PARIS, May 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — India and France called for “an immediate cessation of hostilities” in Ukraine, with Prime Minister…

Covid-19: Pandemic killed 13 to 17 million in 2020-21 – WHO

  GENEVA, May 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Covid-19 pandemic killed 13.3 to 16.6 million people in 2020 and 2021, the WHO…

Thailand Launches Electric Motorcycle Taxi Pilot Project

BANGKOK, May 6 (NNN-TNA) – The Thai government and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), yesterday jointly launched a pilot…

Cambodia Recovers War-Left U.S. Massive Aerial Bomb From Riverbed In Capital

PHNOM PENH, May 6 (NNN-AKP) – A Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC)’s bomb expert team, yesterday, safely removed a war-left…

835 Houses Flooded In Southern Kyrgyzstan, Over 1,000 People Evacuated

BISHKEK, May 6 (NNN-KNA) – Mudflows and landslides caused by heavy rains in southern Kyrgyzstan flooded 835 houses, and more…