Armed Forces Recover Narcotics Worth Millions Of USD In SW Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Oct 15 (NNN-PPI) – Pakistan Coast Guards (PCG), and the army, recovered ice heroin worth millions of U.S. dollars, during a joint operation in the country’s southwest Balochistan province, the PCG said. The armed forces conducted a raid, at the mountainous terrain of Pasni district, of the province and…

Dengue Kills 28 In Singapore This Year, Hitting Record High

SINGAPORE, Oct 15 (NNN-CNA) – Singapore’s dengue death toll in 2020 has reached 28, as of Oct 12, local media reported today, quoting the Ministry of Health (MOH). The number of dengue deaths exceeded the previous high 15 years ago, and is equal to the number of Singapore’s COVID-19 deaths,…

S.Korea’s ICT Export Keeps Growing For Four Months

SEOUL, Oct 15 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea’s export of the information and communications technology (ICT) products, kept growing for four straight months through Sept, on a partial global recovery from the COVID-19 outbreak, a government report showed today. The ICT export expanded 11.9 percent over the year to 17.63 billion…

Sri Lanka, China Sign Supplementary Agreement On Water Supply, Technology Cooperation

COLOMBO, Oct 15 (NNN-SLNEWS) – Sri Lanka and China, yesterday signed a supplementary agreement, on a Memorandum of Understanding on water research and technology cooperation, aimed at providing clean drinking water to several areas of the island country, a statement from the Chinese Embassy to Sri Lanka said. The statement…

China’s Average Life Expectancy Reaches 77.3 Years

BEIJING, Oct 15 (NNN-XINHUA) – Average life expectancy, a key gauge of a country’s economic and social development, particularly in terms of its medical and health services, reached 77.3 years in China in 2019. That was up 0.96 years from 2015. The increase in China’s average life expectancy, as seen…

India Crosses New Peak In COVID-19 Testing, 90 Million Tests Conducted So Far

by Peerzada Arshad Hamid NEW DELHI, Oct 15 (NNN-XINHUA) – India’s federal health ministry said, there is an unprecedented upsurge in COVID-19 testing, as the number of tests has crossed the 90-million mark. “India demonstrated an exponential increase in the number of COVID-19 tests since Jan, 2020,” a statement issued…

Japan Unveils New 3,000-Tonne Submarine To Boost Fleet As Defence Spending Balloons

TOKYO, Oct 15 (NNN-NHK) – Japan, yesterday, unveiled its newest 3,000-tonne submarine, named Taigei, which was built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., amid no signs of the nation reining in its ever-increasing and constitutionally questionable “defence” spending. The submarine was unveiled at a shipyard in western Japan and is slated…

Nine killed after two army helicopters collide in Afghanistan – Ministry

KABUL, Oct 14 (NNN-BERNAMA-XINHUA) — Nine people were killed after two Afghan army helicopters collided in midair in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province Tuesday night, reported Xinhua news agency. According to the country’s Defence Ministry,  in a statement on Wednesday, the accident occurred in Nawa-i-Barakzayi district when two Afghan National Army…

More demonstrations in Jakarta, COVID-19 cases in Indonesia now 340,622

JAKARTA, Oct 14 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Another protest against labour-related laws took place in Jakarta on Tuesday amid the province recorded another daily tally of more than a 1,000 new COVID-19 cases. With 1,054 cases reported in the last 24 hours, Jakarta has the most number of total cases to date at 89,228.…

COVID-19 vaccine: Malaysia to ink MoU with China

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 14 (NNN-BERNAMA) — The Malaysian government will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China to ensure Malaysia will be among the first to receive the COVID-19 vaccine from the country once it is, as expected, successfully developed by end of the year. Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin…
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