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Afghan Parliament okays national budget

The estimated Budget for the fiscal year 1400 is over 473 billion Afs (nearly $6 billion), including 311 billion Afs ($4 billion) for the regular Budget and 162 billion Afs ($2 billion)

February 22, 2021

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Maldives tourism sees strong rebound

Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, around 5,000 tourists arrived here and 3,000 this year….reports Asian Lite News More than 5,100 tourists landed in Maldives on Monday, the highest daily record yet in

February 22, 2021

Asia News·Travel & Tourism

Fiji, Japan ink emergency loan deal

The loan, which is the largest in Japan’s loan history of aid and assistance to Fiji, comes with concessions such as a 0.01 percent interest rate and 15 years of repayment period

February 22, 2021

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Philippines okays Sinovac’s Covid vaccine

The FDA also granted last month emergency authorization to the coronavirus vaccines made by US pharmaceutical firm Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech…reports Asian Lite News The Philippines has officially given nod

February 22, 2021

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Iran to stop ‘snap’ nuke inspections

Iran is changing its access policy from Tuesday because the US has not lifted the sanctions imposed since Donald Trump abandoned the 2015 nuclear deal…reports Asian Lite News The UN nuclear agency

February 21, 2021

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Malaysia gets 1st shipment of vaccines

As of February 2021, Malaysia has had access to a supply of 66.7 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility and early purchases from five Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers…reports Asian Lite

February 21, 2021

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FATF may need darker shades of grey for Pakistan

Despite warnings, Pakistan’s machinations to hoodwink the international community remain the same, reports Asian Lite News Pakistan’s predicament is pitiful. A democracy held hostage by its Army and intelligence agency, Islamabad now

February 20, 2021

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£5 bn Asian wedding industry is on brink of closure

Asian Lite’s Rahul Laud reports on the current crisis faced by the wedding industry In a letter to Paul Scully, Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Minister, the Asian Wedding Association comprised of

February 19, 2021

Asia News·LITE BLOGS

Israel, Syria swap prisoners

The move came hours after Israel freed two Syrian shepherds as part of the swap deal…reports Asian Lite News Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office revealed late on Thursday that an Israeli

February 19, 2021

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Thailand set to begin clinical trials of its own vaccine

If the human trials with the mRNA vaccine are successful, Thai company Bionet Asia will manufacture a range of one to five million doses of the vaccine by the end of this

February 19, 2021

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