Asia North Korea Experience gained by North Korean forces on the battlefields of the Russia-Ukraine war imposes changes in the security calculus on the Korean Peninsula, as NK troops have been exposed to the technology and tactics of modern warfare, UN Commander reveals
Oceania Palau Kicked off in Palau and now in its 17th year, the Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific
Africa Mauritius Press is focusing on the lack of a frame of legal protection to whistle blowers or a Freedom of Information Bill, even though Mauritius is signatory to two UN Conventions enjoining each state to provide specific guarantees
Africa Rwanda The country has adopted the RASME - Remote Assessment Supervision Monitoring and Evaluation - initiative, a tool that improves the collection of project data in remote areas, the first East African country to do so and the seventh in the entire continent
Africa South Sudan The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved an $8,1 million grant to South Sudan to finance its emergency food production programme
Oceania Micronesia For the Kizuna, special bond, with the people & Government of Japan, the FSM government issued a declaration of sadness and shock for the murder of Mr. Abe, re-pronouncing the commitments to a free & open Indo-Pacific
America Saint Lucia The Department of Labour, in collaboration with Canadian Vermax Group, is seeking applications from suitably qualified persons who wish to obtain employment in Canada as industrial meat cutters
Europe Poland More and more Poles are pawning their possessions when they urgently need money, and this often happens even to those with good jobs, on top of mothers with children, pensioners and office workers
Europe France Firefighters are battling blazes that have destroyed thousands of hectares of forest this week, while hundreds of families have been preventively displaced; in Arcachon only, two wildfires have devoured over 10.000 hectares
Asia South Korea 7 out of 10 South Koreans believe the government should only provide medical, food and other nonlethal aid to Ukraine - the survey was conducted by Gallup Korea in June 21-23 involving 1.000 people above 18
Europe Portugal Ranked as the best European country for living and working abroad in the Expat Insider 2022, it sees 85% of expats happy with their life in Portugal, compared to 71% globally according to almost 12.000 respondents
Asia Sri Lanka Sri Lankan lawmakers have gathered to begin choosing a new leader for the remainder of the term abandoned by the president, who fled abroad and resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse
Africa Ghana George Graham, CEO of Pryme, with his label EZ Streets Record is set to inject $10m into the Ghanaian music industry to make it more attractive to other investors and encourage emerging talent to be more creative with their craft
Africa Equatorial Guinea After a month of debate to choose between four proposals submitted to Equatorial Guinea for the implementation of the online visa, VFS-GLOBAL, a leading Swiss outsourcing and technology company, was selected