Asia Georgia The Asian Development Bank has approved a €101 million loan to build and upgrade infrastructure and improve services in urban centres to promote regional development and economic opportunities
Asia South Korea According to IQAir, a Swiss body that measures air quality worldwide, the city of Incheon came second in the world as the most polluted city, preceded only by Kathmandu in Nepal
Asia Kuwait To step up efforts to create jobs for its citizens and set restrictions on hiring foreigners as part of a policy dubbed "Kuwaitisation", the contracts of 67 non-Kuwaiti administrative employees will be terminated by the end of the current school year
Asia Philippines Huawei Philippines continues to empower future ICT talents with Seeds for the Future program, joined by over a hundred students
Asia Uzbekistan Citizens can check the amount of their pension savings through the recently launched online service on the single portal of interactive state services my.gov.uz
Asia Turkmenistan Authorities in the capital Ashgabat have cut subsidised food rations for needy residents, amid severe shortages and rising prices
Asia Pakistan Sex offenders convicted of multiple rapes could now face chemical castration after lawmakers approved new anti-rape legislation to speed up convictions and impose harsher penalties, in response to a mass public outcry over a recent increase in rapes
Asia India The ban on construction work ends today, while the ban on schools, imposed last week due to worsening air pollution levels, continues; the air quality index has reached values 20 times higher than WHO warning values
Asia United Arab Emirates On Universal Children's Day, celebrated yesterday, the young people who visited Expo 2020 in Dubai could take part into a series of events, organized with support from UNICEF, aimed at helping them imagine a brighter future
Asia South Korea Seven of the ten themed routes of the DMZ Peace Trail, a trail created near the Demilitarized Zone that is accessible to the public, will reopen today after 2 years
Asia Tajikistan The International Energy Agency has released a new roadmap examining ways in which the country could maximise the potential value of its hydropower surplus through cross-border trade, helping to promote renewable energy across Central Asia
Asia Afghanistan While economic crisis gets harsher in a country estimated to have over a trillion dollars in natural resources, local miners in natural marvelous and material-rich Nuristan have reported spotting foreigners staking out areas for future exploitation
Asia Turkey The Social Security Institute spent a total of 6.9 billion Turkish liras (about US$700 million) last year to meet the needs of people with diabetes, a disease more and more recurrent