Brunei Reports Record High Of 381 Daily COVID-19 Cases

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Oct 11 (NNN-ANN) – Brunei reported 381 new COVID-19 cases yesterday, a record daily rise, bringing the national tally to 8,980. According to Brunei’s Ministry of Health, all the new cases are local infections. While the source of infection of 126 new cases is still under investigation,…

S.Korean President’s Approval Rating Falls To 40 Percent: Poll

SEOUL, Oct 11 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korean President, Moon Jae-in’s approval rating fell 0.4 percentage points from a week earlier to 40.0 percent last week, a weekly poll showed today. The negative assessment on Moon’s conduct of state affairs rose 0.8 percentage points to 56.8 percent, according to the Realmeter…

India Reports 18,132 New COVID-19 Cases

NEW DELHI, Oct 11 (NNN-PTI) – India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 33,971,607 today, as 18,132 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, the federal health ministry’s latest data showed The number of new cases recorded in a day are the lowest in the past 215…

US couple arrested for selling nuclear warship data

  WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A US couple has been arrested in the state of West Virginia for allegedly selling information on nuclear warships to what they believed was a foreign state, the Justice Department said.   Jonathan Toebbe, 42, who worked as a nuclear engineer for the US…

Nepal Makes Progress In Conserving Forest, Wildlife Species

KATHMANDU, Oct 11 (NNN-XINHUA) – Nepal managed to increase forested areas and the population of endangered animals, tigers and one-horned rhinos in particular, in its efforts to preserve biodiversity over the years. The forested areas in the country reached 45 percent of the total land area. “This is a significant…

China-ASEAN TV Week To Be Held In South China

NANNING, Oct 11 (NNN-XINHUA) – The 3rd China-ASEAN TV Week will be held from Oct 27 to Nov 2, in Nanning, capital of south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the radio and television authority said, at a press conference. The China-ASEAN TV Week will hold a series of activities, including…

UNICEF Urges Afghan Caretaker Gov’t To Resume Kids’ Vaccination Drives

KABUL, Oct 11 (NNN-ANA) – The United Nations children’s fund (UNICEF) yesterday urged the Taliban’s caretaker government, to resume children’s vaccination, amid fear of spreading polio and measles in war-affected Afghanistan. “The health system is about to collapse, we have weeks, not months or years. We will have humanitarian catastrophe,”…

Chinese/Indonesian Startups Among Winners Of G20 Innovation League Competition

SORRENTO, Oct 11 (NNN-XINHUA) – Chinese startup, Sansure Biotech, yesterday won the award for healthcare innovation, at the G20 Innovation League, a competition between 100 startups from over 20 countries. Held both in presence and online over the weekend, in the southern Italy’s city of Sorrento, the competition saw five…

Spain to evacuate more Afghan workers, families left behind

MADRID, Oct 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Spanish authorities said that the country has started a new evacuation operation to extract more Afghans and their families left behind following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Spain’s defence ministry confirmed that it is working with the foreign ministry on a new evacuation mission. The…

Sydney Announces “Freedom Day” After 106 Days In Lockdown

SYDNEY, Oct 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) – As Sydney, capital of the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW), exited its 106-day lockdown yesterday, residents re-emerged to celebrate a long-awaited “Freedom Day.” As some lockdown restrictions officially ended at midnight, and non-essential retail re-opened their doors, local Australians lined up to get…
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