Malaysia Rises To 25th Place In World Competitiveness Yearbook 2021

KUALA LUMPUR, June 30 (NNN-Bernama) — The World Competitiveness Yearbook 2021 has ranked Malaysia’s global competitiveness at 25th place from out of 64 economies, an improvement from the 27th position in 2020. The International Trade and Industry Minister Mohamed Azmin Ali said in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business…

Malaysia’s Official Reserve Assets At US$110.94 Bln As Of End-May 2021

KUALA LUMPUR, June 30 (NNN-Bernama) — Malaysia’s official reserve assets amounted to US$110.94 billion as of end-May 2021, in accordance with the International Monetary Fund’s Special Data Dissemination Standard (IMF SDDS) format. In a statement Wednesday, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) or Central Bank of Malaysia said other foreign currency assets…

Laos To Boost Clearance Capacity Of Unexploded Bombs

VIENTIANE, Jun 30 (NNN-KPL) – Laos will continue to work with all development partners, including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), to improve the quality of life of Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) victims. This was the message at a meeting led by Catherine Phuong, a representative of the UNDP, and Acting…

India Reports 45,951 New COVID-19 Cases

NEW DELHI, Jun 30 (NNN-PTI) – India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 30,362,848 today, as 45,951 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours. The death toll mounted to 398,454, as 817 deaths were recorded since yesterday morning. This is the third consecutive day, after a gap of nearly two-and-a-half…

East Asian Countries Should Reject NATO’s Expanding Tentacles: Media

SINGAPORE, Jun 30 (NNN-CNA) – East Asian countries should jointly reject North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)’s expanding of its tentacles to the Pacific Ocean, the Straits Times of Singapore reported. An article, entitled: “Asia, say no to NATO,” written by Kishore Mahbubani, a distinguished fellow with the Asia Research Institute…

Four People Killed In New Delhi Fire

NEW DELHI, Jun 30 (NNN-PTI) – As many as four people were killed in a fire, in India’s capital, New Delhi late last night, a local fire department official confirmed, today. The mishap occurred in the capital’s eastern Shahdara area, following a cooking gas cylinder blast, said Delhi Fire Service…

More than three billion coronavirus vaccines administered worldwide

Covid-19 vaccines have been given to more than three billion people around the world PARIS, June 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — More than three billion doses of vaccines have been administered worldwide, according to a count carried out Tuesday from official sources.Although the first 1,000 million inoculated doses were reached 20 weeks…

Singapore Updates Border Measures For Travellers From China’s Guangdong, Australia

SINGAPORE, Jun 30 (NNN-CNA) – Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH), said today that, the city-state will allow travellers from China’s southern Guangdong province to go about their activities in Singapore, without serving Stay-Home Notice (SHN), if the result of their on-arrival COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test is negative. Meanwhile,…

Six Killed, Six Missing As Passenger Ship Sinks In Waters Off Indonesia’s Bali

JAKARTA, Jun 30 (NNN-ANTARA) – Six people were killed, as a passenger ship, with dozens of people on board, went down in waters off Bali Island yesterday, and the evacuation has been under way, a rescuer and a senior police officer said. The ship, Yunicee, with 41 passengers and 15…

Bicycle Bomb Wounds Four In Afghanistan’s Eastern Jalalabad City

JALALABAD, Jun 30 (NNN-XINHUA) – Four people were injured, as a bicycle bomb rocked Jalalabad city, the capital of Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, yesterday, provincial government spokesman, Attaullah Khogiani, said. According to Khogiani, militants planted the explosive device in the cavities of a bicycle and detonated it. The blast occurred…
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