Asia Mongolia A 40-metre replica of Japan’s historic Illustrated Account of the Mongol Invasions was donated to Mongolia by a Japanese collector; The replica, depicting the Yuan dynasty’s invasions of Japan in 1274 and 1281, will be housed at the Kharakhorum Museum
America Guatemala This year brought a significant amount of retired people, leading the state into increasing by 10% the pension tax
Asia Saudi Arabia A delegation from the Saudi Ministry for the Hajj and Umrah visited the ANTARA news agency in Jakarta to explore the possibility of cooperating in disseminating information about Saudi culture to the Indonesian community
Africa Sao Tome and Principe The São Tome Public Prosecutor's Office has requested the annulment of the Court of Auditors' visa for the concession of national ports to a Ghanaian-Angolan consortium
Oceania Solomon Islands The Organising Committee of the 2023 Pacific Games in Solomon Islands has issued a tender for the supply of uniforms and related items
America Uruguay In order to promote ESG policies within its financial system, the country has issued its first-ever sustainability-linked bonds, where the issuer will have to achieve pre-defined sustainability goals within the bond’s timeframe
America Bahamas According to a study just released by the University of The Bahamas, 30% of Bahamian women are victims of rape during a long-term relationship
Europe Montenegro In a new report assessing the effectiveness of legal framework to prevent corruption in Government members and police, Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption calls for strong political measures to strengthen the coherence of the system
Africa Ivory Coast World leading cocoa producers, Ghana and Ivory Coast, are boycotting the World Cocoa Foundation meetings on cocoa sustainability in Brussels this week, accusing multinational chocolate companies and traders of blocking measures to improve farmers' incomes
Asia Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged businessmen to do business with their country and its people in mind, during an exchange with the country's importers and exporters of consumer goods
Europe Austria Reichard Wilhelm, a mummified 17th century baby from the crypt of an Austrian aristocratic family, has been identified thanks to CT scans, family records, radiocarbon tests and other burial clues as Frontiers of Medicine explains
Oceania Samoa Samoa's deputy police commissioner Papali'i Monalisa Tia'i-Keti has become the first member of the Australasian Council of Women and Pacific Police to win the prestigious Audrey Fagan Memorial Award
America Antigua and Barbuda Antiguan Joni Spencer has been named a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship 2023, one of the world's most prestigious international scholarship programmes
Asia Cambodia 2,2 million Cambodian children - 37,1% of the total child population - are exposed to the high frequency of heatwaves, according to a UNICEF press release