On November 6, 2024, during his working visit to the People’s Republic of China, Prime Minister of Mongolia Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai got acquainted with the operations of the world-renowned “Alibaba Group,” located in Hangzhou. The Premier was welcomed by Ms. Wen Jia Tan, President of Public Affairs at Alibaba Group, and the two sides discussed future […]
Read MoreMyanmar’s Rakhine state, home to the Rohingya minority and engulfed in conflict between government forces and a powerful ethnic group, could face an imminent acute famine, the United Nations development agency warned in a new report. The U.N. Development Program said in the report issued Thursday that “a perfect storm is brewing” which has put […]
Read MoreOn November 7, 2024, Minister of Education of Mongolia Naranbayar Purevsuren received Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Czech Republic to Mongolia Jan Vytopil to discuss ways to further expand cooperation in education. Currently, there are 13,569 Mongolian citizens officially registered residing in the Czech Republic, among whom 2,178 are studying at various levels of […]
Read MoreIndia, the world’s third largest oil importer and consumer, has become the top buyer of discounted Russian sea-borne oil shunned by Western countries. Global oil prices “would have hit the roof” if big importer India had not bought oil from Russia following the Ukraine war, India’s oil minister said, adding that prices would determine where […]
Read MorePakistan is grappling with a surge in strikes by separatist ethnic militants in the south and Islamist militants in its northwest. At least 26 people were killed and more than 60 injured in a bomb blast at a railway station in Quetta in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, reports Dawn. Pakistan is grappling with a surge […]
Read MoreStudent Direct Stream was launched in 2018 to ‘provide faster processing for eligible post-secondary students’. In the latest measure targeting international students planning to study at a Canadian institution, Ottawa has announced that it is immediately ending the Student Direct Stream (SDS) initiative. According to a notice from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) on […]
Read MoreThe US is Japan’s most important economic and security partner, while Tokyo is a key Washington ally in Asia, providing bases that allow it to keep a large military presence on China’s doorstep. Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba hopes to meet US President-elect Donald Trump in the United States this month, four sources said, in […]
Read MoreThe alleged jamming comes a week after the North test-fired what it said was its most advanced and powerful solid-fuel ICBM missile. North Korea staged GPS jamming attacks on Friday and Saturday, Seoul’s military said, an operation that was affecting several ships and dozens of civilian aircraft in South Korea. The alleged jamming comes a […]
Read MoreThe US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has addressed issues such as governance, the Ministry of Vice and Virtue’s laws, international relations, and security in Afghanistan in its quarterly report. Quoting the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, SIGAR reportes that over the past three years, officials of the Afghan interim government have […]
Read MoreBhutan Computer Incident Response Team has recorded over 100 scam cases in recent years, with some falling victim to financial losses, defamation, and extortion. This is according to the National Cybersecurity Strategy 2024-2029. As the country embraces digital transformation and shifts more services online, the rapid adoption of technology has also heightened its vulnerability to […]
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