Asia Pakistan A central ceremony will be held at the Katas Raj temples today, attended by several political and religious leaders, besides hundreds of Hindu pilgrims arriving in the country
Asia Tajikistan The country is improving its international competitiveness in the textile and clothing sector, with 18 experts in the field of fashion and sewing enrolled in an intensive tailoring course with the latest design technologies and innovative trends
Asia Vietnam The country will focus on developing its logistics sector with special focus on shippings to Europe and America; the current logistical problems are causing bottlenecks to major export opportunities
Asia North Korea Leader Kim Jong Un hosted a grand national memorial service yesterday to mark 10 years since the death of his father and former leader Kim Jong Il
Asia Japan Japan will contribute a record 376,7 billion yen ($3,4 billion) to the International Development Association, a World Bank fund for the poorest nations, in a bid to help them recover from the fallout of the pandemic
Asia Malaysia The second annual Malaysia Women and Girls Forum brought together a range of stakeholders involved in the social and economic advancement of women and girls, focusing on bodily autonomy to ensure that local women have access to this important human right
Asia Myanmar The use of the yuan has been approved for foreign trade to lessen financial pressure (and the decline of foreign currencies), and decouple its currency, the kyat, from the US dollar; it will be used in regulations for small goods at the border with China
Asia Mongolia SLA Digital has announced a new partnership with Unitel Group, a Mongolian telecommunications company, to act as a managed service provider for carrier billing; it will also offer digital content providers access to other payment options
Asia Bhutan The country has postponed the deadline for malaria elimination to 2022, after failing twice, once in 2018 and again in 2020
Asia Iraq Indicators for 2021 published by the Independent Human Rights Commission in Iraq revealed that there are about five million orphans, which is equivalent to 5% of the total number of orphans in the world
Asia Armenia The mayor of Yerevan has met with top managers of the Defense Housing Company, which will build a 128-hectare residential complex, with a school, kindergarten, artificial lake and forest park, at an estimated cost of about 2 billion dollars
Asia Maldives Vaadhoo Council and M20 Hospitality Ventures have signed an agreement for a resort development project in R. Vaadhoo; an agreement had already been signed with another company in 2016, which was later lost due to the pandemic
Asia Kyrgyzstan Despite international pressure to ban its trade, the country is increasing mercury production; the Aidarken mine is one of the few where new mercury is legally extracted for the international market