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Singapore’s Temasek To Issue 2.7 Billion Offshore Chinese Yuan Bond

SINGAPORE, Aug 22 (NNN-XINHUA) – Singapore’s state investment firm, Temasek, will issue 10-year and 30-year offshore Chinese yuan bonds, with…

Comoros becomes WTO’s 165th member

GENEVA, Aug 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Comoros on Wednesday became the 165th member of the World Trade Organization after negotiating…

Mpox vaccine maker gets European order for 440,000 doses

COPENHAGEN, Aug 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Danish drugmaker Bavarian Nordic said it had signed a contract to supply 440,000 doses of…

Indonesia Ready To Export Electricity To Singapore

JAKARTA, Aug 22 (NNN-ANTARA) – The Indonesian government said yesterday that, the country is ready to begin supplying electricity to…

Cambodia Discovers Two War-Left U.S. Aerial Bombs In Southern Province

PHNOM PENH, Aug 22 (NNN-AKP) – Cambodia has found another two war-left U.S.-made MK-82 aerial bombs, in southern Kandal province,…

African health officials hopeful mpox shots will start within days as WHO says outbreak is ‘not the new Covid’

Patients stand at an mpox treatment centre at Nyiragongo General Referral Hospital, in DRC KINSHASA, Aug 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — African…

Russia-China partnership ‘yielding results’, Pres Putin says

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (L) meets Premier of the State Council of China Li Qiang in Moscow MOSCOW, AUG 22…

Restoration Work Underway At Millennium-Old Brick Tower In Cambodia’s Angkor Complex

PHNOM PENH, Aug 22 (NNN-AKP) – Cambodia’s APSARA National Authority (ANA) archaeologists, have begun to restore the Phnom Bakheng temple’s…

Iranian Parliament Approves President’s Cabinet Picks

TEHRAN, Aug 22 (NNN-IRNA) – Iranian lawmakers, yesterday, approved all of President Masoud Pezeshkian’s cabinet picks. The voting was conducted…

Kyrgyzstan Tightens Sanitary, Quarantine Measures To Prevent Mpox

BISHKEK, Aug 22 (NNN-KNA) – The smallpox situation in Kyrgyzstan is stable, and precautionary measures are being implemented, according to…