Asia (except ME & Indian SC)

BEIJING, Sept 29 (APP): Pakistan will participate in the 7th Silk Road International Film Festival, under the guidance of China Film Administration, to be held from Oct. 11 to 16 in Xi’an, capital city of northwest China’s Shaanxi province.

Co-sponsored by Shaanxi Provincial People’s Government and Fujian Provincial People’s Government with the theme “Silk Road Links the World, Film Connects Cultures,” the festival will feature six major events including film screening, film forum and film market, according to China Daily.

29 Sep 2020; MEMO: Turkey had not sent fighters from Syria to Azerbaijan after the country declared that it was in a state of war with neighbouring Armeni, an aide to Azerbaijan’s President, Ilham Aliyev, announced yesterday.

HANOI, Sept 29 (NNN-VNA) – Police and border guards of northern Vietnam’s Son La province, detained three local people for trafficking 20 cakes of heroin and 2,362 pills of synthetic drugs, local media reported today.

The authorities made the arrest on Sunday, after one of the suspects escaped into the jungle, local media reported, adding that, they bought the drugs in the border area, and attempted to resell them in other localities.

Further investigation is underway.

TOKYO (AP) — A Nissan employee testified Tuesday that he worked with another former Nissan executive, American Greg Kelly to find ways to pay the automaker’s former chairman, Carlos Ghosn without fully disclosing his compensation.

Toshiaki Ohnuma, a star witnesses for the prosecution, described to the Tokyo District Court his job in human resources at Nissan Motor Co., where he said he handled executive compensation matters, including working with Kelly on finding ways to pay Ghosn without disclosing it.

(AP) --- Asian stocks were mixed Tuesday after Wall Street recovered some of this month’s losses as investors looked ahead to a debate between President Donald Trump and his challenger in the November election, Joe Biden.

Shanghai, Seoul and Tokyo advanced Hong Kong and Sydney declined.

Overnight, Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index gained 1.6%, led by big tech stocks.

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenian and Azerbaijani forces fought over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh for a second day Monday, with both sides blaming each other for resuming the attacks that reportedly killed and wounded dozens as the decades-old conflict has reignited.

The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry claimed Armenian forces shelled the town of Tartar, while Armenian officials said the fighting continued overnight and Baku resumed “offensive operations” in the morning.

28 Sep 2020; MEMO: Azerbaijan yesterday declared a state of war in some of its cities and regions following attacks by Armenian forces on military and civilian sites over the weekend.

The decision was made in a meeting of Azerbaijan’s National Assembly yesterday, in which it enforced partial measures in its border regions which could temporarily restrict some rights and freedoms of Azeri citizens and foreigners due to the conflict.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin won out in negotiations on the candidate to lead a state on Monday after a narrow win for his ruling coalition in a weekend election that has done little to dispel doubts about his hold on power.

Muhyiddin’s coalition won Saturday’s election in Sabah state in what was widely seen as a referendum on his seven-month-old administration days after opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim declared he had a “formidable” majority in parliament to oust the premier.

YEREVAN/BAKU (Reuters) - Armenian and Azeri forces exchanged fierce fire for a second day on Monday over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, with the sides accusing each other of using heavy artillery amid reports of at least 21 deaths and hundreds of people being wounded.

The clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the heaviest since 2016, have rekindled concern over stability in the South Caucasus region, a corridor for pipelines carrying oil and gas to world markets.

BEIJING, Sept. 27 (APP): China’s MCC Resources Development Company (MRDL), is committed to the welfare and social uplift of its employees in Pakistan. It has an amazing historical background of work in different sectors including health and education, particularly in Balochistan, said MRDL official.

The Metrological Construction Company of China (MCC), has a historical culture of social uplift of its employees and the local population,.