Asia

Save the Children Australia criticised the Australian government's funding priorities following a high-level event on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, pointing out that arms exports to the country continue

The government has issued new legislation authorising the export of natural wood products, with the aim of increasing wood production and processing, as well as providing favourable conditions for the export of natural wood abroad

The country is planning a tender to import 50.000 tonnes of wheat from India, but the timing depends on Lebanon's central bank opening the necessary credit line, as stated by the Economy Minister

The country has determined that it will hire 1.000 new foreign teachers to alleviate the shortage in 11 different subjects including English, French, mathematics, science, physics

The nation celebrates its 52nd Independence and National Day today; the national flag will be hoisted on top of all government, semi-government, autonomous and private buildings with the rising of the sun

Over 40 companies in Kazakhstan received the tools and knowledge to export abroad as a result of 5-day coaching sessions provided in the framework of the EU-funded Ready4Trade Central Asia project

Nearly 200 Tokyo public schools are dropping controversial dress code on hair colour and underwear, after decades that the dress code was in place in the public school system

Tel Aviv University has welcomed the first Ukrainian researcher, Maryana Sytar, who will spend the next semester at the atheneum

Early registration for students in public schools for the 2022-2023 school year will begin today, as stated by the Department of Education, encouraging public schools to conduct early registration too

The country's start-up scene is still "relatively basic" and any business with "some degree of innovation" could be considered a start-up, according to a Singapore-based non-profit group that is helping train North Koreans in entrepreneurship

A suspension bridge across the Dardanelles Strait has been opened, the latest of Erdogan's major infrastructure projects in the country; linking Turkey's European and Asian coasts, the bridge has the longest main span of any suspension bridge

A committee appointed by Sri Lanka's government said the crisis-hit country's central bank and finance ministry must form a team to seek urgent international financial assistance as the economy is faltering under a foreign currency shortage

The start of the spring planting campaign was launched in recent days with the participation of President Serdar Berdimuhamedov, an event with a high value in the country's tradition