Chinese researchers have selected a saline-resistant plant variety in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region that can absorb and process hundreds of tonnes of salt annually in each square kilometer of land. The area of [Read More]
Bahrain plans to soon launch its own digital currency, announced a top official on Sunday. The Governor of Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) Rasheed Al Maraj said at a press conference that “the digital currency [Read More]
Indonesia is holding a national discount festival in capital Jakarta from Dec. 1-31 to drive consumers’ purchasing power with various attractive discounts offered by local micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). The festival, which has [Read More]
Vietnam reported 14,314 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, including 14,312 locally transmitted and two imported, according to its Ministry of Health. Most of the community cases were reported in southern localities, including 1,491 in Ho [Read More]
Vietnam’s economy is estimated to lose some 37 billion U.S. dollars due to the COVID-19 pandemic by the end of this year, according to an official on Sunday. Nguyen Thanh Phong, deputy head of the [Read More]
China’s plastics manufacturing firms saw higher revenue and profits in the first 10 months of the year, official data shows. The combined operating revenue of the country’s plastics sector totaled 1.77 trillion yuan (about 278 [Read More]
The new Omicron variant of COVID-19 was identified in more than a dozen Americans in at least 10 U.S. states as of this weekend, early evidence of its presence across the country, as the federal [Read More]
Police shot and killed a man wielding a knife inside a residence hall on the campus of a university in the U.S. state of Florida on Friday night, authorities said Saturday. The Melbourne Police Department [Read More]
Australia’s medical regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), on Sunday provisionally approved Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine for children aged between 5 and 11 Health Minister Greg Hunt said the federal government now expects the vaccine rollout [Read More]
At least 13 people died and 98 others were injured after Mount Semeru in Indonesia’s East Java erupted, the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) said on Sunday. “Two bodies have been identified, while others are [Read More]
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