Asia

The glass-bottomed Bach Long pedestrian bridge suspended 150 m above the jungle has been opened; the building company claims it' the longest glass-bottomed bridge in the world and Guinness World Records officials are expected to verify it next month

With national child immunisation programme, the country has achieved and maintained child immunisation rate at a level above 95% every year, joining WHO member countries in celebrating World Immunisation Week from 24 to 30 April

Construction work on a 25MW thermal power plant will start this May in three soums of Zavkhan aimag under the government's New Revival Policy

The Tamil Nadu Assembly passed a unanimous resolution to send essential items and medicines to Sri Lanka on a humanitarian basis after the Colombo protests complaining of lack of essential medicines

Beijing conducted a third round of mass testing yesterday and closed all city schools in a further tightening of Covid-19 restrictions

The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman strongly condemned the Israeli air raid on areas in the Damascus suburb on Wednesday morning, in which four Syrian soldiers were killed

Justin Bieber will bring his Justice World Tour to Bangkok on November 6, with tickets going on sale yesterday from 2.500 ($73) to 16.500 baht ($482)

Residents have been urged to avoid gatherings during Eid Al Fitr; celebrations should be limited to members of the same family and relatives and they have been asked to shake hands and congratulate each other from a distance

Liberty Bank and the NGO Partnership for Human Rights announced the introduction of a standard in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and released a public access assessment report

For the terrorist attack in Karachi, Pakistan has gained China’s full support ‘to hunt down the perpetrators, bring them to justice and make them pay a heavy price’

Suffolk University's UNICEF organisation held an International Food Festival event, one of the last of the semester to raise money for children in the Gaza Strip

In support of WWF Bhutan, the National Land Commission Secretariat will strengthen its surveying and mapping practices with a state-of-the-art mapping drone

Some roads, such as the bypass road in the Chui region, will become toll roads after a $150 million renovation