Asia

ADB Sells 4.5-Billion-USD Five-Year Global Benchmark Bond

MANILA, Jan 28 (NNN-PNA) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB), announced today, it priced a 4.5-billion-U.S. dollar five-year global bond,…

Brunei-China Joint Petrochemical Venture Organises Blood Donation

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Jan 28 (NNN-ANN) – Hengyi Industries Sdn Bhd, a joint venture between China and Brunei, held a…

Housing For Southern Lao Flood Victims To Be Completed This Year

VIENTIANE, Jan 28 (NNN-KPL) – Some 496 of 700 planned new homes have been completed, for flood victims in southern…

Covid-19: Brazil’s response worst, New Zealand’s best – study

SYDNEY, Jan 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazil’s handling of the coronaviruspandemic has been ranked the world’s worst, while New Zealand topped…

India Gets 58.37 Billion USD As FDIs In Apr-Nov 2020

NEW DELHI, Jan 28 (NNN-PTI) – India received a total of 58.37 billion U.S. dollars, in terms of Foreign Direct…

Indonesia’s Mt. Merapi Spews Hot Clouds 36 Times

JAKARTA, Jan 28 (NNN-ANTARA) – Indonesia’s Mount Merapi spewed hot clouds 36 times, streaming down up to 3,000 metres, from…

Covid-19: US demands ‘robust’ international probe into virus origins

A team of experts from the World Health Organization arrived in Wuhan after repeated delays to probe the virus’s origins…

Delhi Police To Take Strict Action Against Culprits Of Violence During Farmers Protests

NEW DELHI, Jan 28 (NNN-PTI) – Delhi Police will take strict action against those found involved in the large-scale violence,…

Road Accident Leaves Nine Killed In Western Afghanistan

HERAT, Afghanistan, Jan 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Nine people were killed and two others injured, in a wagon-bus collision, in Afghanistan’s…

Japan’s PM Suga Holds First Phone Conversation With Biden

TOKYO, Jan 28 (NNN-NHK) – Japanese Prime Minister, Yoshihide Suga, spoke with new U.S. President, Joe Biden, via the phone…