The head of Myanmar’s junta, Min Aung Hlaing, will extend the state of emergency in the country for a further six months, state media said on Monday, reporting that the junta’s national defense and security council had given its approval.The junta firs…
Foreign Ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will try and thrash out their differences, ranging from the conflict in Myanmar, to the disputed South China Sea, to admitting East Timor to the bloc, when they meet in…
A Japanese video journalist has been detained by security forces in Myanmar while covering a protest of military rule in the country’s largest city, pro-democracy activists said Sunday.Toru Kubota, a Tokyo-based documentary filmmaker, was arrested on S…
Kenyan ministers said the government has no intention of banning Facebook despite a watchdog last week accusing the social media platform of failing to stop hate speech ahead of Aug. 9 elections.Kenya’s National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCI…
New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency Monday over the spread of monkeypox.“This order will bolster our existing efforts to educate, vaccinate, test, and treat as many New Yorkers as possible and ensure a whole-of-government respo…
BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 1. The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) announced an official rate of foreign currencies on August 1, Trend reports referring to CBI.According to the currency exchange rate of the Central Bank of Iran, 9 currencies have grown and 13 …
Myanmar announced the extension of COVID-19 preventive measures, until the end of this month (Aug 31), according to the Central Committee on Prevention, Control and Treatment for COVID-19, yesterday.The extension is applied to all COVID-19 restriction…
Dhaka – The Director General of Health Services Professor Dr Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam inaugurated two operation theatres and secondary care services at the new Ukhiya Specialized Hospital, constructed and equipped by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Age…
