BEIJING, November 22. /TASS/: The Chinese authorities’ decision to impose a lockdown in Manzhouli, a city in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, northeast China, has not affected the work of the Russian-Chinese border crossing Zabaykalsk-Manchuria, Russia’s Consul-General in Harbin Vladimir Oschepkov told TASS on Sunday.
PHNOM PENH, Nov 22 (NNN-AKP) – Cambodian authorities arrested a 35-year-old local man for allegedly trafficking more than 48 kg of illicit drugs, the National Police reported today.
The suspect was first arrested on Wednesday, near a gas station in the capital, Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district, with 100 grams of crystal methamphetamine, and after being questioned, he confessed to having hidden a large amount of drugs in his rented room.
22 Nov 2020; MEMO: Residents of Aghdam, which was occupied by Armenia for 27 years, said Saturday it was turned into a ruined city, Anadolu reports.
In Aghdam, where the Armenian army withdrew Nov. 20, there are almost no steady buildings.
About 143,000 Azerbaijanis once lived in the city but it now consists of poorly maintained roads and demolished buildings.
Bangkok, Nov 21 (AP-PTI) Secondary school students in Thailand's capital rallied Saturday for educational and political reforms, defying government threats to crack down with legal action against the country's high-profile protest movement.
The rally was called by a group that calls itself Bad Students, mocking their status as rebels against traditional school rules and authorities.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the moon this week to bring back lunar rocks in the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from Earth’s natural satellite since the 1970s.
The Chang’e-5 probe, named after the ancient Chinese goddess of the moon, will seek to collect material that can help scientists understand more about the moon’s origins and formation. The mission will test China’s ability to remotely acquire samples from space, ahead of more complex missions.
SINGAPORE, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has put forward two suggestions on what G20 countries could do together at the G20 summit on Saturday, the Straits Times report on Sunday.
The first suggestion is to ensure affordable and equitable access to vaccines. Lee said that he was glad the G20 had advanced vaccine multilateralism by backing global initiatives such as the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator and the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility.
BEIJING, Nov 21 (APP): China has reaffirmed its support to Pakistan in fighting terrorist forces and stressed that any scheme to sabotage the building of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) flagship project linking the two countries will not succeed.
“I have already made my response to this issue. No attempt to sabotage the CPEC will succeed,” Zhao Lijian made these remarks during his briefing while answering a question about the Foreign Minister and Director General, ISPR joint briefing wherein they accused India of supporting terrorist forces and sabotaging CPEC.
BEIJING, Nov. 21 (APP): Zhang Qin, Vice President of China Seed Association (CSA) has proposed inter-enterprise cooperation for seed industry between China and Pakistan.
Addressing a webinar themed China-Pakistan Agricultural Technology Cooperation and Prospects, she said the association had established communication and cooperation mechanisms with multinational counterparts, and organized member enterprises to visit Pakistan, Uzbekistan and other countries to promote seed industry exchanges and cooperation.
YEREVAN, November 21. /TASS/: Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at a meeting with Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu said that Armenia felt Russia’s support during the war in Nagorno-Karabakh. A fragment of the meeting between Pashinyan and Shoigu was published on the website of the Armenian Prime Minister.
"I would like to note that during the war, we have always felt the support of the Russian Federation, the President, the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, your personal support, and I want to thank you for that," Pashinyan said.
YEREVAN, November 21. /TASS/: Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu at a meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Armenian Defense Minister Vagharshak Harutiunyan in Yerevan said that Russia intends to prevent further bloodshed in Nagorno-Karabakh. A fragment of the meeting was published on Saturday on the website of the Prime Minister of Armenia.
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