Asia Vietnam Technology will help authorities locate and repatriate the remains of war martyrs, the soldiers who died in the Vietnam War; Deputy PM ordered the use of DNA testing, digital archives and mapping to identify remains and return them to families
Europe Malta The Maltese archdiocese's shareholding in APS bank has been diluted to around 55% in 2022, compared to the 79% it previously owned, and the Catholic Church intends to continue 'withdrawing' from Maltese banking sector by further diluting its shareholding
Asia Maldives The State Electric Company has planted more than 36.000 trees in the three months since the project to plant 500.000 trees over the next five years was launched in June
Europe Hungary World stars, representatives of Hungarian jazz dynasties, outstanding Hungarian jazz educators and young up-and-coming talents will perform for audiences in Romania at the sixth Hungarian Jazz Days in Bucharest from 7 to 11 October
Europe Netherlands The Court of Rottdertam sentenced a man for the first time in history for sexually assaulting a woman in the street; the law was amended to make it a punishable offence on 1 July
America Jamaica The Marcus Garvey in Schools project, which aims to bring children to an understanding of their history and cultural heritage, has been extended to 23 primary schools
Asia Nepal A mountain village in Solukhumbu is set to generate electricity from a perennial river near Mount Everest by 2026, becoming the highest in the world, after the government approved an environmental impact assessment study for the energy project
Europe Lithuania Almost 87% of the heat produced in Vilnius will be ‘clean’ thanks to the activation of the most powerful heat pump in the Baltic States, within the territory of Vilnius Power Plant 2, operated by Vilniaus Šilumos Tinklai
Europe Finland The financial difficulties faced by higher education students have increased over the past three years, with 19% of students now reporting that their income is severely limited and uncertain, up from 13% in previous years
Europe Liechtenstein 'Google Street View' now completely covers the country, after Google's camera car was on the road in Liechtenstein in August
Asia Oman The first race of the 22nd annual camel races for 2024-2025 season will start on Friday and continue for 3 days with 89 laps in the Barka and Adam fields in an event organised by the Oman Camel Racing Federation in cooperation with the Royal Camel Corps
Oceania Fiji With an ageing population, the number of elderly people is expected to increase from 10% to 15% by 2050; fears of a more frequent poverty among the elderly also also growing
Asia Saudi Arabia Rayyanah Barnawi, the first Arab female astronaut, was officially recognised for her pioneering space flight by Guinness World Records; she said 'this trip does not just represent me, but rather the entire Arab world and all Saudis'
Europe Ireland The Ministry of Education was ordered to pay €5.000 to a blind student who was denied access to a summer school programme during the Covid-19 pandemic because the support was insufficient