China, Russia veto US push for more UN sanctions on North Korea

UNITED NATIONS, May 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — China and Russia vetoed a US-led push to impose more United Nations sanctions on North Korea over its renewed ballistic missile launches, publicly splitting the UN Security Council for the first time since it started punishing Pyongyang in 2006. The remaining 13 council members all voted in…

Ex-Japanese Farm Minister Convicted For Taking Bribes From Egg Producer

TOKYO, May 27 (NNN-NHK) – A former Japanese farm minister was sentenced to two years and six months in prison, for accepting bribes from an egg production company, while in office. The former farm minister, Takamori Yoshikawa’s sentence was suspended for four years, the Tokyo District Court ruled. The court…

UN remembers its fallen peacekeepers

UNITED NATIONS, May 27 (NNN-Xinhua) — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday laid a wreath at the UN Headquarters in New York to pay homage to the more than 4,200 UN peacekeepers who lost their lives since 1948, and presided over a ceremony to honor the 117 peacekeepers who died…

7,000 People Die Annually In Laos From Smoking-Related Illnesses

VIENTIANE, May 27 (NNN-KPL) – About 7,000 people die annually in Laos, or 19 people per day, from smoking-related illnesses, including non-smokers, who succumb after years of breathing second-hand smoke. A total of 428 million U.S. dollars has been spent on the treatment of people suffering from such illnesses, accounting…

Cambodia Arrests Four Foreigners Over Illicit Drugs

PHNOM PENH, May 27 (NNN-AKP) – Cambodia’s anti-drug police arrested a group of four foreigners, for manufacturing, possessing and trafficking more than 40 kilograms of illicit drugs, the country’s Anti-Drug Police Department (ADP) said, in a news release yesterday. The four men were arrested at two secretive drug labs, with…

Lao Gov’t Orders Action To Facilitate Goods Export

VIENTIANE, May 27 (NNN-KPL) – The Lao government has instructed ministries to streamline procedures, to facilitate trade and speed up freight transport and the export of goods. The move aims to facilitate trade and accelerate freight transport and the export of goods, such as farm products, timber and non-timber forest…

Feature: Power Shortage Undermines Recovery In Afghanistan

KANDAHAR, May 27 (NNN-XINHUA) – In a country already beset by innumerable destabilising factors, power shortages are doing nothing to help Afghanistan’s recovery. In southern Kandahar province, like anywhere else, no electricity means no productivity. Elham Haqmal manages a milk processing plant in Kandahar’s Industrial Park. “We have no mains…

Indonesia Registers 246 New Cases Of COVID-19

JAKARTA, May 27 (NNN-ANTARA) – Indonesia reported 246 new COVID-19 cases, during the past 24 hours, health authorities said. The total number of COVID-19 infections in the country rose to 6.05 million, and 156,556 deaths were reported due to the viral disease. There are 3,011 active cases in the archipelagic…

Myanmar’s COVID-19 Tally Rises To 613,260

YANGON, May 27 (NNN-MNA) – The total number of COVID-19 infections in Myanmar rose to 613,260 yesterday, after four new cases were confirmed in the past 24 hours, according to the ministry of health. The ministry said, health authorities tested 6,624 people for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, and…

Moody’s Lowers India’s 2022 Growth Projection To 8.8 Percent

NEW DELHI, May 27 (NNN-PTI) – Global credit rating agency, Moody’s, yesterday slashed India’s economic growth projection to 8.8 percent for 2022, from its earlier projection of 9.1 percent, citing high inflation as the main reason. It said that, the growth momentum at the end of 2021 had carried through…
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