Day: December 28, 2023

Bangkok, Dec 28 A 29-year-old Indian national has been arrested in southern Thailand for operating an unlicensed money lending business. Yadav Durgesh was arrested on Wednesday as part of a crackdown on illegal loan activities by police authorities, The Thaiger news website reported. He was at a rental property at Ban Na San in Surat…

New Delhi, Dec 28 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has stressed the need to break the vicious cycle of violence that generations of Palestinians have suffered from and called for an end to the injustice against them, media reports said. “It is both unacceptable to justify — let alone encourage — attacks and to respond…

Beijing, Dec 28  China is taking proactive measures to counter new COVID-19 cases caused by the JN.1 variant of the virus, which is spreading globally, China’s health authority said Thursday. “China is routinely monitoring COVID-19 infections to determine the trend of infection spread and virus mutation,” said Li Zhengmao, an official with the national administration…

Yangon, Dec 28 Myanmar authorities have seized 95.81 tons of illegal timber across the country in a week, the state-run The Mirror Daily reported on Thursday. From December 18 to December 24 this year, the authorities confiscated 10.45 tons of teak, 37.57 tons of hardwood and 47.78 tons of other types of timber in the…

New Delhi, Dec 28

Beirut, Dec 28  The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Thursday called on Lebanese authorities to investigate an attack against one of its peacekeepers a day earlier in Lebanon’s southern village of Taybeh. UNIFIL said in a statement posted on social media platform X that one of its peacekeepers “was hurt after a…