Asia Indonesia The Deputy Minister of Health confirmed that the Ministry will continue to evaluate the dengue haemorrhagic fever prevention programme to ensure its effectiveness; success will be indicated by a decrease in the number of transmissions, treatments, deaths
Asia Nepal According to Pasang Sherpa, president of Pioneer Adventure, Nepali mountaineer Pasang Lhamu Sherpa climbed to the summit of Nanga Parbat on 1 July, becoming the first Nepali woman to scale the 8126 metre peak
Asia Turkmenistan Minister of Foreign Affairs met the Deputy Director General of the WTO and informed him of the preparatory work carried out in Turkmenistan for WTO accession, which includes improving the national legislative framework, procedures and foreign trade rules
Asia Iran Iran's decision to produce drones for Tajikistan, a country with strong cultural and ethnic ties to Tehran, marks a major milestone for the country; the drone factory in Tajikistan will be its first offshore weapons production facility
Asia East Timor Cabinet Office Minister Magalhaes believes that the economy "urgently needs to grow" for the state to consolidate and expand the social security system, in the face of "finite and limited resources" and increasing pressure on public spending
Asia Mongolia Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with Mongolia's leaders during a trip to Asia to seek support amid his country's sanctions and diplomatic isolation by the West
Asia Yemen Yemeni special forces have launched an offensive against al-Qaeda in the southern governorate of Abyan, following reports that the terrorist group is attempting a comeback
Asia Singapore The publication of statistics on the racial composition of the prison population and criminals could "deepen" stereotypes, said Law and Home Affairs Minister Shanmugam
Asia Armenia Armenia has agreed to normalisation talks with Turkey to open their common border for third-country nationals and to begin direct cargo flights, notwithstanding decades of strained relations between the two neighbours
Asia Japan Nearly 40 million Japan residents spent the weekend as if in the era before smartphones, after local phone company KDDI Corp. suffered its largest outage to date, affecting both voice calls and data communications
Asia South Korea Daily COVID-19 infections are going up again, ending the downward trend that continued since the omicron-driven wave was curbed in march; health authorities reported that the country added 6.253 new COVID-19 infections during the 24 hours of Sunday
Asia Bhutan Of 7399 water sources currently used by the population, 25,1% are drying up while 0,9% have dried up, according to the assessment and mapping exercise coordinated by the Watershed Management Division of the Department of Forest and Park Services
Asia Brunei ASEAN Climate Change Centre to be opened in Brunei in September, pending approval from other countries in the regional bloc, allowing the country to become a regional hub for climate change knowledge and research