Asia

Over 10,000 Myanmar Nationals Arrive Home By Relief Flights

YANGON, Aug 13 (NNN-MNA) – The Myanmar government brought 10,482 citizens back by relief flights and special flights, as of…

Thailand To Continue Price Control, Mask Export Restriction

BANGKOK, Aug 13 (NNN-TNA) – Thailand’s Ministry of Commerce, said that, surgical mask factories were allowed to sell products directly…

5.5-Magnitude Earthquake Rattles Northern Philippines

MANILA, Aug 13 (NNN-PNA) – An earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5, shook Batanes province, in the northern Philippines…

Four Police Officers Killed In Bomb Attack In W. Afghanistan

FARAH, Aug 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) – At least four police officers were killed and 16 people wounded, after a bomb explosion…

Australia Records 21 COVID-19 Deaths On 4th Consecutive Deadliest Day

CANBERRA, Aug 13 (NNN-XINHUA) – Australia’s COVID-19 death toll surpassed 350 on the nation’s deadliest day of the pandemic. Authorities…

Roundup: Iran Calls For Enhancing Anti-COVID-19 Cooperation In E. Mediterranean Region; Saudi Arabia’s Cases Exceed 290,000

CAIRO, Aug 12 (NNN-MENA) – Iran called for extending cooperation on fighting COVID-19 in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Meanwhile, the…

US Pres Trump says coronavirus changed ‘great’ relationship with China’s Xi

WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US President Donald Trump said his relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping has frayed in…

Anxious Mauritians use hair to stem Japanese ship’s oil spill

A satellite image shows the MV Wakashio ship and the oil spill off the southeast coast of Mauritius NAIROBI, Aug…

At Least Five Dead As Bus Catches Fire In Southern India

MUMBAI, Aug 12 (NNN-PTI) – At least five people were killed, after a bus travelling to India’s southern city of…

Elephant Tramples Man To Death In South Thailand

BANGKOK, Aug 12 (NNN-TNA) – An elephant stomped a man to death, while he was collecting vegetables near his community,…