Panama hats and designer sunglasses, champagne buckets and luxury cars: in the mountain resort town of Faqra, Lebanon's economic crisis is not immediately obvious. Digging into a crunchy salad at an ... ( read original story ...)
BCPG eager to build Asean’s largest wind farm in Laos
SET-listed BCPG Plc, a renewable energy arm of Bangchak Corporation Plc, plans to build Asean's largest wind farm in Laos to generate revenue from rising demand for electricity. ( read original story ...)
Poverty rate in Laos down to 18.3 per cent
Poverty in Laos continues to decline to 18.3 per cent, as infrastructure accessibility has improved, particularly road electricity, clean water and sanitation access, according to data from the Lao ... ( read original story ...)
Graduate students from India make it back to Israel on a special flight
The group of some 100 students landed Tuesday at Ben Gurion Airport after the Interior Ministry had approved their entry into the country at the request of the Council for Higher Education ... ( read original story ...)
Israel Start-Up Nation riders at Vuelta a Burgos all return negative COVID-19 tests
The Vuelta a Burgos organisers announced late on Tuesday evening that all members of the Israel Start-Up Nation team – riders and staff – who had been tested for COVID-19 at the race had all returned ... ( read original story ...)
Lebanese PM urges caution amid heightened border tensions with Israel
Lebanon's Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Tuesday that Israel had violated his country's sovereignty with a "dangerous military escalation" along the Israeli-Lebanese frontier on Monday and called ... ( read original story ...)
UAE’s Emerging Hip Hop Scene Searches For Its Identity
And in a country made up of residents drawn from all over the world, and with little street culture to speak of, the hip hop scene has yet to find its "sound", he told AFP. Growing up to the beats of ... ( read original story ...)
India announces new VBM repatriation schedule, but when will India-UAE flights resume?
India on Tuesday approved 26 more repatriation flights from the UAE for the fifth phase of the Vande Bharat Mission (VBM) beginning on August 1. This will take the total number of VBM flights by Air ... ( read original story ...)
Sebastian Tagliabue delighted to finally pull on the UAE shirt: ‘I didn’t want to take it off … it’s an amazing feeling’
Argentine-born striker received his UAE passport in January but has had to wait to play for the national team due to the coronavirus lockdown ... ( read original story ...)
Aaron Rodgers ‘bummed,’ not bitter about Packers’ Jordan Love pick
Aaron Rodgers said he still wants to play his entire career in Green Bay even after the Packers picked QB Jordan Love in April. ( read original story ...)