Asia Bhutan The Jalpaiguri district administration is planning to install rain gauges in some areas of Bhutan to receive real-time rainfall data
Asia Syria A Syrian delegation led by Health Minister Al-Ghabash is taking part in the 69th session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean that has kicked off in Cairo
Asia Uzbekistan During the FIFA calendar days in November, the Uzbekistan national team will play a friendly match against the Kazakhstan national team in Tashkent, after a 15-year break
Asia Vietnam The building site for a 300m long breakwater at Chân Mây Port has been inaugurated; it will increase its capacity from 4-4,5 up to 6 million tonnes of cargo by 2025
Asia Afghanistan Threats against women are now common in Afghanistan, with victims' advocates claiming that sexual violence is on the rise under the Taliban government and that previous help to which women had access is no longer available
Asia Bangladesh The country is said to have about 712 species of birds, although the IUCN Red List of Bangladesh has confirmed about 570 species
Asia China In September, China's central bank injected liquidity into the money market to meet the demand of financial institutions totalling 400 billion yuan (around US$56,34 billion) through the medium-term lending facility
Asia Iran While the large street demonstrations have mostly subsided, the protest movement has moved inside universities and schools; when they reopened on Saturday, the first day of the Iranian week, protests broke out after two days of relative calm
Asia Myanmar A court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced Japanese documentary filmmaker Toru Kubota to 10 years in prison on two counts, the latest foreigner to be convicted
Asia Israel 38th Haifa International Film Festival, opening today until 17 October at the Haifa Cinematheque and other venues in the city, will present a diverse selection of the best of recent world cinema, as well as new films from Israel
Asia Mongolia In collaboration with the Mongol Ecology Centre and Spirit of America, a US Army Civil Affairs team supported the 'Rally for Rangers' event, a cross-country journey to benefit Park Rangers in August
Asia Lebanon Authorities are inspecting suspected cases of cholera, less than a day after the first case of the disease since 1993 was confirmed in the country