Negotiators early Sunday approved a historic deal that would create a fund for compensating poor nations that are victims of extreme weather worsened by rich countries’ carbon pollution, but an overall larger agreement still was up in the air because of a fight over emission reduction efforts. After the decision on the fund was approved,…
SINGAPORE– Singapore reported 2,088 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday, bringing the total tally to 2,148,794. A total of 200 cases are currently warded in hospitals, with 11 of them in intensive care units, according to statistics released by the country’s Ministry of Health. One new death from COVID-19 was reported yesterday, bringing the…
BANGKOK– Leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies, met here today, to discuss ways to promote sustainable development and facilitate trade and investment. Addressing the 29th APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting, Thai Prime Minister, Prayut Chan-o-cha, said that, the leaders would exchange views on supporting economic growth and sustainable development, leading the region towards…
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris convened an emergency meeting of key regional powers Friday on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Bangkok to discuss North Korea’s latest missile launch, that fell 200 kilometers off Japan’s coast. “This conduct by North Korea most recently is a brazen violation of multiple U.N. Security resolutions….
When North Korean state media posted pictures of Kim Jong Un attending Friday’s launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, the big news wasn’t the rocket. What sent analysts scrambling was a young girl with a ponytail and puffy white jacket who was shown walking hand in hand with Kim after inspecting the ICBM. Other pictures…
Health officials in Malawi are struggling to contain one of the worst cholera outbreaks in years. The outbreak has spread to nearly all of the country’s 28 districts, killing more than 250 people and infecting more than 8,000. “The cholera situation as of currently, we are receiving a lot of cases every day, the numbers…
A global wildlife summit in Panama took an important step Thursday toward upgrading protection for sharks, the ancient ocean vertebrates targeted for their fins used in a status-symbol soup. A committee voted to approve a proposal to include requiem and hammerhead sharks on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)….
