VGP – A Vietjet Air flight carrying nearly 240 Vietnamese citizens in Malaysia landed at Cam Ranh International Airport in Khanh Hoa Province on August 13, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Source: VGP News Read More: Nearly 240…
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<p>Finland’s Ministry of Defence announced on 11 August that there would be a delay to the issuing of best-and-final-offer (BAFO) requests to replace the country’s fleet of Boeing F/A-18C/D Hornet aircraft under the HX programme.</p>…
<p>The US Navy is reassessing the impact of Covid-19 on the schedules and costs for major shipbuilding programmes with the virus taking its toll on shipyard workforce numbers.</p> <p>“We are watching with some concern workforce…
President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to be inoculated as early as May 2021. Russia is the first country to grant regulatory approval for a COVID-19 vaccine. Source: Deutsche Welle – Asia Read More: Philippines…
The North Korean “secret” organization that oversees Kim Jong Un’s slush funds and foreign currency is looking to cash in on record gold prices by diverting scarce electricity to facilities that produce the precious metal,…
The Kyrgyz Republic can address the socioeconomic challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic by moving aggressively to strengthen the health system, expand social protection and employment, and improve transparency in the… Source: Asian Development Bank …
North Korean refugee-led civic groups in South Korea have become the target of sweeping government inspections as Seoul seeks to re-engage with Pyongyang, which says heightened tensions on the peninsula are the fault of activist…
Cases of COVID-19 infection linked to a recent outbreak in Vietnam’s coastal city of Danang are continuing to surge, with Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc calling the next 10 days “critical” to efforts to contain…
Six women from China and two from Vietnam, who were forced by a Chinese criminal syndicate to work as prostitutes, have been rescued in the northern Philippines, police said Wednesday. Police raided the Fontana Hotel…
State media organizations and Chinese state security police have produced dozens of televised forced “confessions” in the years since ruling Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping took power, often involving severe duress and torture,…