Iran’s FM, Yemeni Houthi Official Meet In Tehran

TEHRAN, Oct 27 (NNN-IRNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, and the Spokesman of Yemen’s Houthi movement, Mohammad Abdul-Salam met in Tehran on Saturday. Both sides held talks on a range of issues, including the latest efforts to end conflicts between the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthi movement. Zarif…

ASEAN Makes Major Achievements In Integration, Community Building In Last Four Years: Philippine Official

MANILA, Oct 27 (NNN-PNA) – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), made major achievements in regional integration and community building in the past four years, a Philippine high-level official said, stressing the importance of China’s role in helping build the ASEAN community. ASEAN, founded in 1967, announced the establishment…

150 Killed In Central India’s Lightening Incidents In Two Months

NEW DELHI, Oct 26 (NNN-PTI) – As many as 150 people died, in different incidents of lightening, during rains in India’s central state of Madhya Pradesh, over the past two months, said the latest data. The Climate Resilient Observing Systems Promotion Council (CROPC), which is running a “lightening resilient India…

ASEAN Information Ministers Pledge To Build Smart Connectivity

VIENTIANE, Laos, Oct 26 (NNN-KPL) – The 19th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Telecommunications and Information Technology Ministers Meeting (TELMIN) and related meetings were held here on Thursday and Friday. According to the joint media statement issued by ASEAN on Friday, the meeting, talking over smart connectivity for ASEAN…

China Education Expo-2019 Begins In Bangladeshi Capital

DHAKA, Oct 26 (NNN-BSS) – In recent years, pursuing higher education in China has become increasingly popular for Bangladeshi students. A two-day “China Education Expo-2019” inaugurated at a hotel in the capital Dhaka, gave hundreds of Bangladeshi students and their guardians, a look at education choices in parts of China.…

New Boron Carbide Plant To Strengthen Turkey’s Defence Industry: Minister

ISTANBUL, Oct 26 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkey is preparing to strengthen its national defence industry, through a boron carbide plant, to be built by a Chinese company, and operational in 2021, in the northwestern province of Balikesir, Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Fatih Donmez, said. The groundbreaking ceremony of…

Cambodian Gov’t Approves Draft Budget Of 8.23 Billion USD For 2020

PHNOM PENH, Oct 26 (NNN-AKP) – The Cambodian government approved about 8.23 billion U.S. dollars for the government’s expenditure in 2020, an increase of 22.7 percent, compared with that of 2019. The approval was made during a weekly cabinet meeting, which was presided over by Prime Minister, Samdech Techo Hun…

Japan Envoy Miyagawa Bids ‘Sayonara’ To Malaysia With Glowing Tribute To Mahathir

By Azman Ujang and V. Sankara Subramaniam KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 25 (NNN-Bernama) — Dr Makio Miyagawa is bidding sayonara to Malaysia after five and a half years here as the Japanese ambassador while paying a glowing tribute to Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, the one leader who, he says, the…

Update: China says no confirmation yet on UK truck victims’ nationality

BEIJING, Oct 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — British police have yet to confirm that the 39 people found dead in a truck near London were Chinese nationals, the Chinese foreign ministry said Friday. A Chinese consular official travelled to Essex on Thursday, a day after emergency workers discovered the bodies inside the refrigerated container of…

Storm-hit areas in Japan brace for heavy rains, 60,000 advised to evacuate

A man walks with his son near flooded houses, in the aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis, in Yanagawamachi district TOKYO, Oct 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A wide swath of eastern Japan hit by flooding and landslides from Typhoon Hagibis two weeks ago braced for more heavy rains on Friday, with evacuation advisories…
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