Norway’s central bank, Norges Bank, announced Friday it has appointed NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg to take over as its next governor after his term leading the military alliance ends later this year. The central bank announced the appointment in a statement on its website, saying Stoltenberg had been appointed by
Propelled in part by the wildly contagious omicron variant, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 900,000 on Friday, less than two months after eclipsing 800,000. The two-year total, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is greater than the population of Indianapolis, San Francisco, or Charlotte, North Carolina. The milestone
ASEAN expresses grave concerns over the continued ballistic missile tests conducted by DPRK which may escalate tensions and threaten regional peace and stability, ASEAN Foreign Ministers said in a statement. ASEAN calls on the DPRK to comply fully with all relevant UN Security Council resolutions taking into account the international
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Saturday inspected the implementation of components of the eastern section of North-South Expressway Project. The Prime Minister visited and presented Tet gifts to workers building the Doc San tunnel in Cam Thinh Dong commune, Khanh Hoa province. He praised workers for working during
On the first day of the lunar New Year, soldiers of the Radar 595 Station on Hon Khoai islet and local islanders attended a flag raising ceremony, the most sacred one on the island. Tran Thi Thu Giang of Can Tho city said she has attended many flag raising ceremonies
KUALA LUMPUR, Capital A Bhd chief executive officer Tony Fernandes has called for a more sustainable approach to aid the region’s aviation industry to recover from the impact of pandemic-driven movement restrictions. He said that travel restrictions make sense in the early stages of an outbreak and, over the past two years, Malaysia
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, The Brunei government launched a new tourism package yesterday, to attract tourists, despite a recent surge in daily COVID-19 cases in the country. According to Brunei’s Ministry of Primary Resources and Tourism, the tourism products are designed specifically for the Brunei-Muara district, where the national capital, Bandar
