During his visit to Bordeaux, King Charles III emphasizes climate issues

After three days of pomp and politics in Paris, King Charles III concluded his three-day state visit to France on Friday with a voyage to Bordeaux to focus on his personal passion: the environment.

Charles and Queen Camilla helped plant a loquat leaf oak tree in the garden of Bordeaux C...

Koreans are anticipating a second construction boom in the Middle East, but their optimism is waning.

As Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is rumored to be missing his scheduled visit to Korea next month, fresh worries have arisen concerning the dangers of Middle Eastern construction projects.

On Monday, a local media outlet cited diplomatic sources to indicate that th...

President-elect Joe Biden has chosen French President Emmanuel Macron to host the nation on its first state visit

On Monday, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced that on December 1, President Joe Biden will welcome French President Emmanuel Macron to the White House for the first official state visit of his administration.

The visit will "underline the profound and enduring friendship ...

Pelosi To Visit Taiwan

As part of her trip of Asia, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is likely to make a stop in Taiwan, as stated by a senior government official from Taiwan as well as an official from the United States. This occurs in spite of concerns from officials in the Biden administration, who are concerned about ...

Australia will remove the requirement for the Covid vaccine and travel bans for foreign visitors

Under new rules that will take effect this week, travellers entering Australia won't need to reveal their Covid vaccination status or apply for a travel exemption.

With the revisions to the Biosecurity Act made on the advice of the chief medical officer, Paul Kelly, the home affairs...

'It's strange,' says one visitor after spending the day at the museum assisting colour-blind visitors in seeing pink

Mason Suljic, 24, has a few issues that he has to deal with daily. He has trouble reading graphs, charts, and maps. To him, the red squiggly line that indicates spelling errors looks different. Choosing pencil colours or clothing, as well as picking suitably matured produce at the grocery, is alw...

Players from Australia express reservations about visiting Sri Lanka during the conflict

Sri Lanka is experiencing its worst economic crisis since independence in 1948, with a chronic lack of foreign exchange severely restricting imports, especially necessities like fuel and medicines.

Cricket Australia (CA) CEO Todd Greenberg said the Australian team has voiced ethical con...

Singapore wants to enable vaccinated visitors to come without having to go through quarantine

According to Transport Minister S. Iswaran, Singapore hopes to ultimately enable all passengers to bypass quarantine in the nation if they are vaccinated.

"I believe we have now been able to put in place a series of measures to restart travel," he said in an interview with CNB...

Singapore to Suspend Visits to Hospital Wards for 4 Weeks

Singapore’s Ministry of Health announced on Friday that all visits to hospital wards and care homes were going to be suspended from 24th January to 20 February amid the latest wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Ministry of Health said that the changes had been made for the better ...

CHINA’S IMPORT OF COSMETICS FROM JAPAN ROSE 30 PERCENT IN 2020

Highlights –

• China’s import of cosmetics from Japan rose 30 percent in 2020.
• Chinese consumers using cross-border e-commerce platforms.
• In 2020, China's cosmetics imports reached about $17.3 billion.
• The Chinese g...

JAPAN’S TRAVEL BALANCE FELL BY 89.2% IN FY 2020

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• Japan’s travel balance fell by 89.2% in FY 2020.
• Japan’s travel surplus in 2020 fell 3.8% to 18.20 trillion yen from a year earlier.
• The service trade deficit stood at 3.73 trillion yen.
• Japan poste...

FOREIGN VISITORS IN JAPAN FALL BY 98.3% IN JANUARY 2020 AMID PANDEMIC

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• Foreign visitors in Japan fall by 98.3% in January 2020 amid pandemic.
• Visitors from Vietnam made up almost half of the arrivals at 20,000 in January.
• Visitors from China came in second, followed by South Korea.

THAP LAN NATIONAL PARK RESUMES ITS ACTIVITIES AS IT IS OPEN FOR VISITORS

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• Thap Lan National Park will resume to guests on Saturday, after being shut for a month under cross country Covid-19 controls, however, outdoors tents and overnight stays won't be permitted

Chief of the park, Prawatsart Chanthep g...

JAPAN GOVT. REPORTS PLUNGE IN FOREIGN VISITORS BY 97.7% IN NOVEMBER

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• Japan Govt. reports a plunge in foreign visitors by 97.7% in November.
• The estimated number declined to 56,700 from a year earlier for the 14th straight month.
• Japan reportedly received over 4.05 million...

HONG KONG UNIVERSITY RESEARCH SUGGESTS STUDENTS ON TOUR VISIT TO CHINA WILL CHANGE PERCEPTIONS

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• Researchers from a Hong Kong college have said short excursions to terrain China should assume a more prominent function in undergrad examines, after exploration connected visits by neighborhood understudies to an expanded feeling of public character<...

POPE FRANCIS FIRST VISIT TO IRAQ IN THE PANDEMIC, SIGNALED TO THE MOST HISTORIC EVENT AS A SIGN OF REGIONAL PEACE

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• Pope Francis will turn into the primary pope to visit Iraq one year from now, in an outing to five spots, including Baghdad, Erbil, and Mosul between March 5 and March 8, the Vatican said

The program of the excursion will be made kno...

HONG KONG CHIEF WELCOMED WARMLY AT MAINLAND, HAILED HER ACHIEVEMENTS

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• China's Vice-Premier Han Zheng praised Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and her organization on Friday for accomplishing eminent outcomes in actualizing the public security law and battling the Covid-19

The Hong Kong pioneer ...

MANY EVENTS DISPLAYED AT HONGKONG MUSEUM FEARED TO BE OMITTED IN REVAMP; VISITORS PAY LAST VISITS AHEAD OF CLOSURE

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• After twenty years, Hong Kong history is going through a significant redo

The eight displays of the lasting exhibition, possessing two stories at the Hong Kong Museum of History, includes the city's topographical and scenic devel...

UAE'S FIRST TEMPLE PROGRESS REVIEWED BY SHEIKH AL NAHYAN

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• Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, recently met the top delegates of BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, the network-based social and profound association assembling the primary Hindu temple in Abu D...

GUAM POSTPONES TO REOPEN TRAVEL FOR JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA & TAIWAN

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• GVB has postponed the reopening of travel for the countries of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
• Earlier, the island was supposed to open on 1 JUL 2020.

Prioritizing the health and safety of island residents as well as trave...