Asia Cyprus The Cypriot project to develop environmental awareness of plastic pollution from cruise ships has received the major BeMed 2020 award from the BeyondPlasticMediterranean foundation supported by the Prince Albert of Monaco Foundation
Asia Maldives ABL Indira Projects will upgrade police infrastructure in the country, with more than 500 workers and 100 engineers required for the project to be delivered to Tamil Nadu
Asia Philippines The Seasons Residence condominium in Manila has received the highest award in the country and five stars in the Asia-Pacific region in the International Property Awards, which recognize outstanding real estate projects
Asia Azerbaijan More than a thousand pilgrims visited the IV century Christian monastery of Amaras, located in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, with the support of Russian peacekeepers
Asia North Korea The country plans to start operating within this month a disinfection complex near the border with China - now under construction - to resume cross-border trade
Asia Israel Air Force struck southern Lebanon overnight - IDF confirmed that it targeted areas from which rockets were fired yesterday towards Israel
Asia Indonesia After the success in Pekambaru, the government is pushing to conduct mobile vaccinations in different areas of Jakarta to speed up the process in the capital and to reach more participants in areas with low coverage
Asia Georgia Colchis and Mtirala National Parks, as well as the protected natural areas of Kobuleti and Kintrishi were included in the UNESCO World Heritage List due to a high density of rare and relict species of flora and fauna
Asia Afghanistan In his address to parliament, the president attributed the problems to the US withdrawal and urged support for a national mobilisation against the Taliban, arguing that Afghan forces are capable of pushing back the insurgents in the next six months
Asia Lebanon Beirut braces itself for protests on first anniversary of port explosion, as political and security figures held responsible for the tragedy are still accounted for, while economic crisis has claimed an ever social cost since last year
Asia Syria For the first time, Syrian Scientific Olympiad’s students participated in the Iranian Combinatorics Olympiad, organized remotely with high participation of countries
Asia Yemen Syria confirmed readiness to cooperate and use available capacities to support Yemen in the agricultural sector
Asia Kyrgyzstan About 40 km of the border with Tajikistan were demarcated at the last three meetings of the bilateral working group: at the moment 519 out of 970 km are specified, while the rest remains undescribed