Asia

Over the past two years, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has arrested 31 offenders and confiscated over 1.400 fishing gears in the six provinces bordering Tonle Sap Lake

Fossil fuel used in the city of Dhaka and generally in Bangladesh has sulphur levels almost 10 times higher than international standards and is the main cause of the country's air pollution

Thousands of artists from around the world, as well as thousands of citizens via an online petition, called for the exclusion of the song 'October Rain', representing the country at Eurovision, which makes strong allusions to what happened on 7 October

On the 45th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, the country launched an ambitious environmental initiative with the inauguration of 67 projects, covering 17 provinces, to combat pollution and promote sustainable practices

Mozambique's ambassador to East Timor and Indonesia, Belmiro José Malate, expressed Mozambique's willingness to support the Timorese authorities in the training of Portuguese language staff and teachers

Local production and assembly facilities in Pakistan produced 2,27 million mobile phones in January 2024, of which 0,72 million were 2G phones and 1,55 million were smartphones, a significant increase from the 0,24 million imported phones

QatarEnergy, the state-owned company of one of the world's largest LNG exporters, is adding another major LNG expansion project to its two ongoing ones, aiming to increase its total LNG export capacity by 85% from current levels by 2030

Over 300 online shops selling food, everyday goods, clothing, furniture, are registered in the country, also thanks to the implementation of the State Programme for the Development of the Digital Economy in Turkmenistan for the period 2021-2025

New regulations will be implemented to improve rights and living conditions of seasonal agricultural workers, who will be accommodated in temporary settlement areas, mainly on state-owned land, with housing, infrastructure, sanitation and security guards

For the first time, the presence of Skywalker hoolock gibbons has been confirmed in the forests of north-eastern Myanmar, discovered by researchers who used acoustic monitoring and DNA analysis to identify 44 groups of these endangered primates

Researchers claim that dozens of archaeological sites have been demolished to allow 'systematic looting', with satellite images providing first visual evidence that looting trends began under the previous government and continued under the Taliban

Under the amendments to the country's education law, school attendance in grades 10-11 (upper secondary education) became compulsory, whereas previously only education grades 1-9 were compulsory