Asia Pakistan As government struggles to arrest deepening economic crisis, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar to allay concerns sayid that the country is the only one founded in the name of Islam "and Allah Almighty cares for its development and prosperity"
Asia Tajikistan The Ministry of Transport of Tajikistan concluded an agreement with the Chinese Nanjing Communication Engineering Co. Ltd and the Closed Joint-Stock Company Zavodi Asfaltu Beton of Tajikistan for the construction of roads in Khatlon Province
Asia Syria The areas under wheat cultivation exceeded one million hectares, with an 89% implementation rate of the government plan, stated Ahmad Haidar, Director of Crop Production at the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform
Asia South Korea Face masks will no longer be required indoors starting Monday 30th Jan, except in high-risk places such as hospitals and on public transportation; schools, kindergartens, child care centers and department store will be mask-free
Asia Taiwan A group of 200-300 dolphins made their way into Taichung Harbor on Lunar New Year's Eve, swimming in the protected waters for over an hour; the very rare episode did not disrupt port traffic, authorities underline
Asia Turkmenistan A draft agreement on the delimitation of the bottom of the Caspian Sea was discussed in Ashgabat by the delegations of Turkmenistan and the Republic of Azerbaijan, reported the press service of the Turkmen Foreign Ministry
Asia Jordan Sabaa Thnaibat is the first Jordanian woman to fly solo in an F-16 fighter jet; she embodies the words the King once told Jordanian women, vivid in her memory: “not be wary of participating” and to “always move forward”
Asia Armenia State Revenue Committee of Armenia and Tana Energy Management Company signed a €18.495.000 contract for the modernisation works at the Meghri border checkpoint
Asia Mongolia The number of passengers crossing the Mongolian border reached 2016,2 thousand in 2022; compared to the previous year, the number of passengers increased by 3,1 times
Asia Nepal The process of promoting the Nawa Durga temple in Omsatiya Rural Municipality Constituency No. 4 in Rupandehi district as a peeth (pilgrimage destination) has begun
Asia Palestine Multiple airstrikes on the Gaza Strip have caused a rising exchange of fire, a day after Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp, marking one of the deadliest raids in the occupied West Bank by the Israeli army
Asia Azerbaijan Authorities spoke of “terrorist act” with reference to the gunman attack to the Azerbaijan embassy in Tehran that killed the Head of Security, while Iranian officials blamed the assault on “personal motivations”
Asia Cyprus The recent spike in flu type A cases has led the Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela to call on the people to get the flu vaccine, especially the elderly and the fragile