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SEPANG – Monthly passenger movements reached a record high in December 2022 for Malaysia Airports’ (the Group) operations in Malaysia with 6.8 million passengers. The year-end holiday season had contributed to the significant 31% increase from the preceding month and enabled the Group to reach 50% of 2019 levels for Malaysia operations. From the 6.8 […]

One of the leading causes of climate change is unmanaged waste and at the recently held COP27 last November 2022, the continuing struggle to reach the Global Methane Pledge, which recognizes that reducing methane, a greenhouse gas over 80 times as potent as CO2, is critical to achieving the Paris Climate Agreement’s goal of limiting […]

China’s tourism sector has recovered to pre-pandemic levels with travelers venturing out during the Lunar New Year holidays after stringent Covid-19 restrictions were removed, industry data showed. Bookings for hotels, B&B hotels and tourism tickets in the first four days of the Chinese Lunar New Year as of Wednesday have exceeded bookings for the same […]

Burqa-clad women walk in a market in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province on January 23, 2023 OMER ABRAR Text size ADDS UN deputy secretary general Two senior UN leaders said Wednesday they were pressing the Taliban to reverse its restrictions on Afghan women, particularly a ban on working in aid delivery, with one official warning that “famine […]

Spring Festival this year is a time of special rejoicing in China as it ends its “zero-COVID” policy and reopens its borders, which is great news for the tourist industry and cross-border trade. One company excited about this development is Chinese-based JX Luxventure JXJT, which provides comprehensive solutions for high-net-worth families with an emphasis on […]

Nazih Osseiran (Thomson Reuters Foundation) (The Jakarta Post) PREMIUM Beirut   ●   Fri, January 27 2023 Rights groups have accused the Saudi Arabian government of “infiltrating” and seeking to control Wikipedia, after the Wikimedia Foundation banned 16 users for engaging in “conflict of interest editing” in the Middle East and North Africa. The ban […]

January 27, 2023 JAKARTA – All of a sudden, her potent activist voice, which she had used to defend those without one for nearly a decade, gave way to sobbed silence. Sri Ningsih, 77, seemed to struggle when asked how she ended up living abroad so many years ago. After a few minutes of slowly […]

Fri 27 Jan 2023 | 12:52 AM Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin, UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for Egypt and UN Special Envoy on Financing 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, said that the world is suffering from a trust crisis beside surpluses of crises that require decision-making institutions to do two interrelated things, first is to be guided […]

Jakarta (ANTARA) – The Directorate General of Immigration of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights has now allowed foreign nationals to apply for a fresh visitor visa or extend their visa online. “At the occasion of the Directorate General of Immigration anniversary, foreigners can now apply for a tourist visa and pre-investment visitor visa […]

Newswise — When autocratic rulers have access to modern arms that are both fast and accurate at long ranges, it allows them to suppress protests and riots more effectively and at a lower cost. Now a large study confirms that access to modern military technology substantially reduces the probability of democratisation of authoritarian regimes. The […]