Asia Syria Syria received around 1.400 kilograms of cancer drugs from India as part of India's humanitarian assistance efforts
Asia Taiwan Victor Gao, renown Chinese lawyer, businessman and academic - vice president of the Beijing-based Centre for China and Globalisation - affirmed that everyone in Taiwan must pledge there is 'one China and Taiwan is part of China' after 'reunification'
Asia Tajikistan Two-day International Scientific and Practical Conference ‘Current Issues in the Development of the Hissor Sheep Breed’ was supported by the EU, in collaboration with other development partners, as part of the Integrated Rural Development Project/TRIGGER
Asia Thailand The Thai Alcohol Beverage Business Association has asked the government to amend Section 32 of the Alcohol Control Law to remove 'excessively strict' limits on alcohol advertising
Asia Bangladesh The UNHRC stated that there is a credible probability of an 'unnecessary' use of force by Bangladeshi security forces against student-led protesters
Asia Vietnam The biotrade project, run by the Swiss agency Helvetas and the Centre for Rural Economic Development, a local NGO, has been helping small businesses in the Mekong for the past eight years and ended with an event at the Swiss Embassy
Asia Uzbekistan The Senate approved the Entrepreneurship Code; today in Uzbekistan there are about 5.000 documents regulating entrepreneurial activity and entrepreneurs have difficulty finding the requirements applicable to their business
Asia Turkmenistan An online meeting was held between Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and the UN Deputy Secretary-General, Executive Director of UN Environment Programme, to consolidate efforts to solve global environmental problems
Asia Saudi Arabia The Disabled Children's Association's Khotwa Summer Club programme, an eight-day programme aimed at providing a range of recreational, educational, social and craft activities for children with disabilities, has been completed
Asia Palestine WHO and UNICEF called for a 7-day pause in the fighting in the Gaza Strip to allow the vaccination of 640.000 children against polio, after a case was found in a 10-month-old child after more than 25 years
Asia Iran According to the Russian news agency TASS, the Iranian ambassador to Moscow, Kazem Jalali, stated that the country is ready to transit Russian gas through its territory
Asia Yemen Severe flooding and strong winds have devastated parts of Yemen, killing at least 61 people since the end of last month and displacing thousands, according to the United Nations
Asia Laos Health and labour control centres will be set up to prevent occupational accidents and diseases by the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, in cooperation with six hospitals in Vientiane