Allegations of adulteration in China’s edible oil

China has been accused of transporting edible oil in fuel oil tanker trucks without decontamination. The country’s netizens have started criticizing the government on China’s social media Weibo on this issue. The country’s government said it would launch an investigation into the allegations. China’s state-run newspaper Beijing News reported that tankers used to transport fuel […]

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11 members of the same family were killed in a road accident in the Philippines

At least 11 members of the same family were killed when a passenger bus collided with a truck in the Philippines. Apart from this, at least 3 people were seriously injured. The bus collided with a truck on a southbound highway in the country’s northern Cagayan province early on Thursday (July 11). The bus dragged […]

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Plane carrying 2 Israelis makes emergency landing in Pakistan

A flydubai flight carrying two Israeli nationals made an emergency landing in Karachi, Pakistan. The plane was going to Sri Lanka. Pakistan’s foreign ministry said on Thursday (July 11) that the plane landed in Karachi at night. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan also said that they have worked with everyone else to ensure […]

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4 dead bodies with skeletons were found during the clean-up operation in Everest

A clean-up campaign has been carried out on Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world, located in Nepal. There is so much garbage that it has become a threat to the environment. The news agency Associated Press (AP) reported that the cleaning operation was carried out in the last few days at the highest […]

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Bangladesh-China agreed to give a new shape to the relationship

Both sides agreed to upgrade Bangladesh-China relations from ‘strategic partnership’ to ‘comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership’. This was informed in a joint statement on Thursday. Bangladesh’s foreign ministry released a 27-point joint statement on its website after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina concluded her three-day bilateral visit to China from June 8 to 10. The Prime Minister […]

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‘Russia is oriented toward raising interregional cooperation with Kyrgyz Republic’

Krasnoyarsk is hosting the 11th Russian-Kyrgyz Interregional Conference. More than 700 representatives of business, public organisations and authorities of the two countries are taking part in its business programme. President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov addressed the conference with welcoming words. Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Alexei Overchuk and Chairman […]

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Indonesia considers changing rules on micro loans

JAKARTA: Indonesia is reviewing rules in a government programme to subsidise micro loans, a senior minister said on Thursday, after the country’s banking regulator signalled it would turn down the government’s request to relax rules on loan restructuring. President Joko Widodo last month proposed reinstating until 2025 a COVID-era loan restructuring policy, which allowed banks […]

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Myanmar’s ex-president visited China, followed by its junta No 2. What’s the play?

Beijing has been regularly inviting Myanmar’s junta-appointed ministers to China on various official visits. But it was a late June visit by ex-president Thein Sein that sparked international headlines. And just over a week later, the Myanmar military leadership’s No 2 man Soe Win made an official trip to attend a forum in Qingdao in […]

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