A proposed law by Kuwaiti MPs has been submitted which seeks to address a long-standing demographic imbalance between expat workers and Kuwaiti nationals. If approved, it could lead to hundreds of thousands of foreign workers being laid off and replaced with locals. The proposal includes setting proportional limits by nationality so that the number of […]
A list specifying 33 types of animals allowed for consumption and trade was published this Friday, according to China Daily. The outbreak of coronavirus that has spread around the world has led China to take this measure, in order to ensure public health and safety. The National Catalogue of Livestock and Poultry Genetic Resources has […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A front-running COVID-19 vaccine candidate being developed in China is expected to be available as soon as the end of this year, according to a report published in the official Wechat account of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. The vaccine, jointly developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Products and […]
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 jolted 196 km SE of Sarangani, the Philippines on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said. According to the organisation, the epicentre laid at a depth of 41.9 kilometres. No reports of damages or casualties, as well as a tsunami warning, have been available yet. Full story: sputniknews.com Sputnik […]
Japanese female professional wrestler and reality television star Hana Kimura, age 22, has died, wrestling promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom (Stardom) announced yesterday. No cause of death was announced. Kimura reportedly made several post on social media suggesting she was a victim of cyber-bullying shortly before her death. Her final Instagram story post was a […]
Philippine police have detained a man for issuing an online death threat to President Rodrigo Duterte in what has become the latest in a series of such arrests over the past several weeks. Shortly before the detention on Tuesday, the man, who was not identified, reportedly wrote on his Facebook page, “200 million [Philippine] pesos […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Chinese virology institute in the city of Wuhan where COVID-19 first emerged has three live strains of bat coronavirus on-site, but none match the new contagion wreaking chaos across the world, its director has said. Scientists think COVID-19 — which first emerged in Wuhan and has killed some 340,000 people worldwide […]
Turkey offered condolences to Pakistan over a deadly plane crash in the early hours of the day, Anadolu Agency reports. “We receive the news with deep sorrow that a Pakistan International Airlines plane crashed into a residential area close to Jinnah Airport in Karachi resulting in the loss of many lives,” Turkish Foreign Ministry said […]
