Peshawar: Pakistani authorities foiled a major drug smuggling attempt and recovered narcotics valued at over 910 million rupees (about 3.05 million U.S. dollars) in the country’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR…
Windhoek: The national chairperson of unemployed qualified teachers, Joyce Liswaniso, has voiced mixed feelings regarding the government’s recent decision to fill approximately 660 teaching posts. Although the plan to recruit over 2,000 unemployed tea…
Windhoek: As the watershed Regional Council and Local Authority elections draw near, the battle for the Kunene Region is intensifying, with at least 33 candidates contesting seats across the seven constituencies.
According to Namibia Press Agency, t…
Windhoek: More than 100 students from the Institute for Open Learning (IOL) submitted a petition to the institution’s management, expressing their dissatisfaction and requesting that their August-September 2025 examination scripts be marked promptly. …
Outjo: Teachers in the Kunene Region have completed a training course aimed at strengthening foundational learning for pre-primary and Grade 1 learners. This was done under the School Readiness Initiative facilitated by the Church Alliance for Orphans…
Samangan: Health authorities in northern Afghanistan’s Samangan province have collected and destroyed a large quantity of expired and low-quality medicines accumulated over the past year, the provincial public health office said in a statement on Wedn…
Hunchun: A freight train carrying 46 containers of goods left the border city of Hunchun in northeast China’s Jilin Province heading for the Russian capital city of Moscow, marking the launch of a new postal train service.
According to Namibia Press…
Colombo: Prasanna Ranatunga, who formerly served as Sri Lanka’s minister of tourism and civil aviation, was arrested Wednesday by officials of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption. The commission said in a statement that …
Tbilisi: All 20 Turkish military personnel on board a C-130 cargo aircraft have died after the plane crashed in Georgia near the border with Azerbaijan, the Turkish Defense Ministry announced Tuesday. Turkish and Georgian authorities launched coordina…
Vientiane: Indian airline IndiGo will operate direct flights between India’s Kolkata and Cambodia’s cultural province of Siem Reap, starting from Thursday, Cambodian Minister of Tourism Huot Hak said on Wednesday. This will mark the first time an Indi…
Herat: Afghan authorities have launched a series of development projects in western Afghanistan’s Herat province, the Bakhtar news agency reported Wednesday. With a total investment of 2.7 million U.S. dollars, the projects aim to create jobs and impr…
Beijing: Chinese stocks closed lower on Wednesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.07 percent to 4,000.14 points. The Shenzhen Component Index also recorded a decline, closing 0.36 percent lower at 13,240.62 points.
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Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is also the general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has sent a letter of congratulations to the 20th theory seminar between the CPC and the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV)….
Herat: Hong Kong’s stock market ended higher on Wednesday with the benchmark Hang Seng Index up 0.85 percent to close at 26,922.73 points. The positive performance was mirrored in other key indices as well.
According to Namibia Press Agency, the Han…
Vientiane: Thongloun Sisoulith, general secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) Central Committee and Lao president, held a meeting with Li Shulei, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committ…
