Hyundai Motor Launches First Model With Dedicated Electric Vehicle Platform

SEOUL, Feb 23 (NNN-YONHAP) – Hyundai Motor, South Korea’s biggest car producer, today launched its first model with a dedicated battery electric vehicle (BEV) platform. The IONIQ 5 debuted as Hyundai’s first model in its new IONIQ brand, dedicated to BEV and built upon the Electric-Global Modular Platform (E-GMP), that…

Tunnel Test Launched For Nepal’s Largest Drinking Water Project

KATHMANDU, Feb 23 (NNN-NEPALNEWS) – Nepal yesterday initiated the testing process of the tunnel, for the country’s largest drinking water project, a senior official of the project office said. Water Supply Minister, Mani Chandra Thapa, inaugurated the testing process by releasing water into the tunnel of the Melamchi Drinking Water…

Aussie PM Rules Out 2021 Election: Local Media

CANBERRA, Feb 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, has inclined to rule out a 2021 election, telling his colleagues to prepare for a 2022 poll. According to Nine Entertainment newspapers, Morrison told a weekly meeting of government Members of Parliament (MPs), yesterday that, he and Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg,…

5.8-Magnitude Quake Strikes Off Central Indonesia

JAKARTA, Feb 23 (NNN-ANTARA) – An earthquake, measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale, jolted Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province, in the central parts of the country early today (Tuesday), the meteorology and geophysics agency, said. The quake hit at 02: 22 a.m. Jakarta time Tuesday (today) (1922 GMT Monday) with the…

Japan Asserting Claim Over Disputed Islets Draws Ire Of S. Korea

TOKYO, Feb 23 (NNN-NHK) – Japan yesterday asserted its claims over the disputed islets in the Sea of Japan during a ceremony, drawing a harsh backlash from South Korea. The annual ceremony known in Japan as “Takeshima Day,” held every Feb 22, since 2006, immediately drew a staunch backlash from…

Egypt, U.S. Discuss Military, Security, Anti-Terror Cooperation

CAIRO, Feb 23 (NNN-MENA) – Egyptian President, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, and visiting Commander of U.S. Central Command, Kenneth McKenzie, discussed yesterday, ways to strengthen cooperation in the military, security and anti-terrorism fields. During a meeting in Cairo, Sisi and McKenzie also discussed joint military training programmes and the exchange of experience,…

Malaysian PM Observes IKN’s Preparations For Immunisation Programme

PUTRAJAYA (Malaysia), Feb 23 (NNN-Bernama) — Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on Monday observed the preparations being made by the National Cancer Institute (IKN) here ahead of the implementation of the first phase of the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme which begins this Wednesday (Feb 24). IKN is one of the 54 Vaccine…

Three Rockets Hit Airbase In Iraq’s Salahudin Province: Local Source

BAGHDAD, Feb 21 (NNN-NINA) – Three Katyusha rockets, yesterday landed on an Iraqi military airbase, in Iraq’s Salahudin province, a provincial security source said. The attack took place in the evening, when the Katyusha rockets landed in Balad airbase, some 90 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Mohammed al-Bazi,…

China, Vietnam Vow To Strengthen Security, Law Enforcement Cooperation

HANOI, Feb 21 (NNN-XINHUA) – Vietnam is willing to enhance pragmatic cooperation between the public security departments of China and Vietnam, said General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee (CPVCC) and Vietnamese President, Nguyen Phu Trong, when meeting with Chinese State Councillor and Minister of Public Security,…

Vaccine Arrives, Takes Malaysia’s Battle Against Covid-19 To Next Level

SEPANG, Feb 21 (NNN-Bernama) — The long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine to protect Malaysia’s population arrived in the country on a special aircraft which landed at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) here Sunday. Flight MH604, bearing the Jalur Gemilang livery to symbolise the vaccine is for Malaysians, landed at 10.07 am…
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