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Police warned online lurkers to be vigilant about scams again today after a 16-year-old Thai girl was conned via Instagram into giving over THB300,000 to scammers. The unidentified teen’s uncle, identified only as Atichai, said it all began a year ago when his granddaughter found a job listing on Instagram that promised money in exchange […]

Tom Fawthrop / SAC- Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M) press release -Two Years After the Coup (2-2-2023) Two years after launching the attempted coup, the Myanmar military junta has failed to impose its political agenda on Myanmar, according to SAC-M (The Special Advisory Council for Myanmar) a group of independent international lawyers, who constantly […]

Tribune News Service Chandigarh, February 1 Experts have expressed dismay at a decrease in the total allocation to the health sector in the Budget today. The Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) said in the last year’s Budget of Rs 39.45 lakh crore, the health expenditure was Rs 86,606 crore, which means […]

International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Remarks byThomas R. HastingsDeputy Chief of MissionOAS Permanent CouncilFebruary 1, 2023 Mr. Chair, I take the floor under Other Business to highlight the commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which was designated as January 27 by the United Nations General Assembly in 2005. We mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day by honoring […]

The Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Shri Alkesh Kumar Sharma inaugurated the G20 Cyber Security Exercise and Drill for more than 400 domestic and international participants under India’s G20 presidency, here yesterday. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) conducted this Cyber Security Exercise and drill in hybrid mode (Physical […]

G20 delegates, who arrived in Tamil Nadu to attend the first meeting of the G20 Education Working Group, got a glimpse of the state’s handicrafts in Mahabalipuram on Wednesday. The delegates arrived on January 31 at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IITM) Research Park in Chennai to participate in the ‘Role of Digital Technologies […]

L AHORE     –    caretaker Minister Primary and Secondary Healthcare Dr Jamal Nasir has said that training programme me for paramedics will soon be launched in all tehsil headquarters hospitals to upgrade this sector. He said this while talking to the Young Paramedics Association which called on him, here the other day. The YPA […]

By Rocío Condor and Julian Fox, FAO Open science and open data are becoming increasingly important tools for addressing global challenges such as forest and climate change. For example, the Forest Declaration, adopted in 2022 at the XV World Forestry Congress in Seoul, Republic of Korea, encourages wide uptake of technologies and mechanisms for the provision of and […]

Three ministries on Wednesday signed a framework of Memoranda of Cooperation aimed at preventing and combating human trafficking. According to a joint press release by the ministries of Justice and Public Order, Labour and Social insurance, as well as the deputy ministry of social welfare, two memoranda are included in the framework. First, a Memorandum […]

Ambassador Francisco O. Mora is administered the oath of office as Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States. (December 13, 2023) Remarks byFrancisco O. MoraSwearing-in CeremonyJanuary 13, 2023 I’m so grateful and honored to see all of you here today.  You all had a part in this journey that culminated in the oath I […]