PHNOM PENH, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen has extended best wishes for the Chinese Lunar New Year, saying that the peoples of Cambodia and China have always shared weal and woe since ancient times.
In a recent message to the Chinese people and the Cambodians of Chinese descent, Hun Sen wished them good health, happiness and success in all their endeavors in the New Year.
BAKU, January 20. /TASS/: Azerbaijan is ready to hold the postponed trilateral meeting between the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia as soon as possible, Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov told reporters on Friday.
"We are ready to hold the postponed trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia as soon as possible. Now everything depends on the other party," the foreign minister said, as quoted by the Baku-based news agency Report.
YEREVAN, January 20. /TASS/: Armenia is ready to intensify dialogue with Azerbaijan to normalize bilateral relations, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Friday.
"As before, Armenia demonstrates a constructive and honest approach to the negotiating process because our ultimate goal is establishing security and peace in the region. We heed the international community’s calls and are ready to negotiate more intensively," he said in an interview with Armenpress.
SEOUL, Jan 20 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea’s central bank supplied 4.2 trillion won (3.4 billion U.S. dollars) worth of fresh banknotes, to meet cash demand ahead of the Lunar New Year’s holiday, the Bank of Korea (BOK) said today.
The fresh banknotes have been put into circulation through local banks and other financial institutions, for the past 10 working days until today, to meet cash demand during the holiday, scheduled to last from tomorrow to Tuesday.
TOKYO, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Japan's suicide rate increased from the previous year in 2022 owing to the increased rate among males for the first time in 13 years, the government said in a report on Friday.
According to the health ministry, there were a total of 21,584 suicides in 2022, 577 more than the previous year, with suicides by men comprising 14,543 of the annual total of deaths, which was 604 more than the previous year.
YANGON, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- China on Thursday handed over an additional 3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Myanmar, according to a statement from the Chinese Embassy in Myanmar.
Speaking at the handover ceremony in Yangon, the Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar Chen Hai said China and Myanmar have a long history of "Paukphaw" (fraternal) friendship. It rapidly delivered the new batch of COVID-19 vaccine to Myanmar upon a request from the Myanmar side for the vaccine.
China will continue to deepen cooperation with Myanmar in various fields including health, he added.
SIEM REAP, Cambodia (AP) — A group of 15 Ukrainian deminers on Friday wrapped up a week of training in Cambodia, where experts who have cleared minefields from one of the world’s most contaminated countries shared their expertise with the relative newcomers to the dangerous job.
Cambodia is still strewn with mines from three decades of war and internal conflicts that ended in 1998, while the problem in Ukraine is a new one since the Russian invasion last year.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A fire destroyed about 60 makeshift homes in a densely packed neighborhood surrounded by some of the wealthiest streets of South Korea’s ultramodern capital Friday.
Firefighters extinguished the flames in Seoul’s Guryong village within about five hours, and no injuries or deaths were reported.
Shin Yong-ho, an official at the fire department of Seoul’s Gangnam district, said rescue workers have searched areas affected by the fire but all residents were believed to have safely evacuated.
BEIJING, Jan.19 (APP): A book titled “Pakistan in the Eyes of Geologists”, a scientific monograph led by China-SCO Geo-sciences Cooperation Research Center was published recently by Geology Press.
The book is divided into six parts, which took three years to complete in collaboration with eight institutions from both China and Pakistan, including China-Pakistan Joint Research Centre on Earth Sciences.
ASHGABAT, January 19. /TASS/: Russian oil remains in demand on the world market, as it is difficult to ensure global energy balance without it, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told reporters on Thursday.
"It should go without saying that our oil is in high demand. In terms of exports, we have a sizable market share. As a result, ensuring energy balance today is difficult to achieve without Russian oil," he said.
Novak also noted that oil output and exports in January remain at the level of December.
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