Major news in China on Jun 14: State Council improves food safety
Top news in <CNTV>: State Council improves food safety Country will reward people who expose substandard products The State Council laid out measures to improve food safety on Wednesday, including tighter supervision and harsher punishment for violators. “It is an onerous task for the government to ensure food safety,” as China’s food industry is still […]
Major news in Malaysia on June 14: Raising retirement age
Top news in <New Straits Times>: Raising retirement age WORK TILL 60: Bill covering private sector employees tabled in Parliament KUALA LUMPUR : THE government yesterday tabled a bill — Minimum Retirement Age Bill — to raise the minimum retirement age for private sector workers to 60. Tabling the bill, Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri […]
Major news in Bangladesh on Jun 14: Ugly face of insolence and ignorance
Top News in <Holiday> : Ugly face of insolence and ignorance The face-off between a High Court bench of the Bangladesh Supreme Court and the country’s parliament, the Jatiya Sangsad, that is being currently witnessed is unprecedented as well as disgraceful. It is, in our view, the result of insolence and ignorance. The outburst of […]
Major news in Jordan on June 14: Fuel price hike no surprise, but ill-timed – consumers
Top news in <The Jordan Times>: Fuel price hike no surprise, but ill-timed – consumers For some motorists, the timing of the government’s Tuesday night decision to raise the price of 90-octane gasoline was “inappropriate” and the new price is way “too high”. Near midnight on Tuesday, the Cabinet announced an increase in the price […]
Major news in Yemen on June 14: France advocates security council resolution 2051
Top news in <Yemen News Agency>: France advocates security council resolution 2051 France welcomed Wednesday the UN Security Council’s resolution 2051 which reaffirmed the importance of implementing the Gulf initiative to address Yemen’s crisis. In a press conference held Wednesday, Spokesman at the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs Bernard Valero advocated the efforts […]
Major news in China on Jun 13: The thousand-year-old Tibetan paper
Top news in <Peoples Daily>: The thousand-year-old Tibetan paper More than 1,300 years ago, when the Princess Wencheng of Tang Dynasty went to Tibet to get married, she also brought the papermaking technology from the central plain area to this plateau. After years of study, innovation and inheritance, the Tibetan paper was born. Since the […]
Major news in Japan on Jun 13: Japan to develop drones to monitor radiation
Top news in <Japan Today>: Japan to develop drones to monitor radiation TOKYO — Japan’s nuclear energy authority and the country’s space agency Tuesday announced a joint project to develop a drone to measure radioactivity in the environment after last year’s nuclear disaster. Japan has been forced to invent or improve systems for measuring radioactive […]
Major news in Kazakhstan on Jun 13 : We have no control over ecological situation at Caspian Sea
Top news in <TENGRI NEWS> : We have no control over ecological situation at Caspian Sea Kazakhstan Environmental Protection Minister talked about lack of control over the ecological situation at the Caspian Sea, Tengrinews.kz reports. “We don’t have a serious scientific base for research of the Caspian Sea. We are more concerned over creation of […]
Major news in Burma on June 13 : Strikes end at five factories in Yangon
Top news in <The Myanmar Times> : Strikes end at five factories in Yangon A MONTH-LONG strike at Hi-Mo wig factory in Yangon ended on June 5 after the South Korean owner agreed to comply with the demands of the workers, with the same round of negotiations also resulting in the end of strikes at […]