Asia Bahrain 394.000 visitors have been registered in state-run heritage sites in January-August 2026, with the Bahrain Fort accounting for 246.409, nearly two thirds of the total, and foreign visitors prevailed with the presence of 187.567 people
Asia Brunei The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines said it signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Intellectual Property Office of Brunei Darussalam to outsource patent services
Africa Cape Verde A study presented concluded that child labour affects 4,2% of Cape Verdean children between the ages of 5 and 17; 2,5% work in hazardous conditions, but the majority work for family members
Asia Afghanistan The Afghan power company Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat settled a two-year debt with Uzbekistan for the supply of electricity
Africa Liberia Kula Bonah Nyei Fofana was appointed to head the President's press and communications office: for the first time in Liberia's history, a woman will lead the communications team of the President
Africa Angola In December 2023, APOPO, with over two decades of history in humanitarian mine action, reached an extraordinary milestone by achieving a total of 100 million square metres of landmines cleared over the years
America Barbados Nearly 500 students are participating in the pilot phase of the Ministry of Energy and Enterprise's National Financial Literacy Expansion Programme, underway in seven secondary and six primary schools
Europe Austria The pigments in 12 million-year-old fossil snail shells from Austria are the oldest preserved dyes of the polyene group, as scientists from the Natural History Museum in Vienna and the University of Göttingen have shown
Europe Albania Italians are the leading group of foreign tourists in Albania in 2023, compared to other European or regional countries, excluding Kosovo, which traditionally outnumbers other areas; around 1 million Italians visited Albania last year, 9% of the total
Asia Vietnam The government has introduced incentives to encourage investment in the development of hi-tech parks, which will be eligible for investment incentives equivalent to those applied to locations with extremely difficult socio-economic conditions
Africa Guinea-Bissau The Minister of the Environment of Guinea-Bissau, Viriato Luis Soares Cassamá, presented the candidature of a group of islands in the Bijagós archipelago to become a World Heritage Site at the Unesco headquarters in Paris
Oceania Fiji The newly built hospital in Rotuma was officially handed over to the Ministry of Health by the military forces of the Republic of Fiji and is now ready to serve the public
America Antigua and Barbuda The Department of Youth Affairs launched its inaugural Entrepreneurship EDGE programme, aimed at empowering young people and improving their entrepreneurial skills
Asia Cyprus Cyprus property sales fell by 3% in January 2024 compared to the same month last year according to official Land Registry sales statistics