Asia Bhutan A group of 34 international tourists from the US, UK, New Zealand, Germany and France, who arrived in the country on April 2, will stay for 27 nights, the first major tour group to visit the country in nearly three years
Asia Laos A highway linking the capital Vientiane with Houaphanh province is closer to reality after a feasibility study for the project was launched in the presence of the Ministry of Planning and Investment
Asia Maldives The Maldives Industrial Fisheries Company Limited has decided to limit the purchase to 5 tonnes of fish in its southern centres due to freezing capacity issues
Asia Armenia The country will host the Orion 2022 Summit in June, organised by Orion Worldwide Innovations, a hub for startup growth and ecosystem acceleration
Asia Nepal Kalika Secondary School built a well-stocked library last year with the help of national and international agencies, making it a landmark for the school's students; almost all 74 community schools in the rural municipality have libraries
Asia Georgia Georgian company MaxinAI has become a partner of AWS - Amazon Web Services, a partnership that will give the company new opportunities in its specific field of action, artificial intelligence
Asia Iraq The oil ministry announced preliminary oil exports for February of 100.563.999 barrels; revenue for the month was $11,07 billion, the highest monthly oil revenue in Iraq since 1972
Asia Palestine WB approved an $8 million grant to reform and modernize the public financial management system, strengthening institutions to improve their accountability and transparency and to support fiscal stability
Asia Myanmar Human Rights Watch has attacked a meeting between Australia's ambassador to Myanmar and the head of the military junta, saying it was "lending credibility" to a regime accused of war crimes
Asia North Korea The EU would reportedly be ready to vote on a new resolution on human rights violations, condemning the use of the death penalty after the NGO Open Doors reported the killing of "several dozen" North Korean Christians
Asia Mongolia Medicines, animal vaccines, tea, sugar, telecommunications equipment, trucks and other goods imported from India amounted to $30 million value last year
Asia Vietnam Studying primate conservation since 1999, Dr Long helped build a network of biodiversity researchers and expanded conservation projects in central Vietnam, helping to train hundreds of students on biodiversity during annual field trips to forests