Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1600 GMT, Dec. 11
Written by ABC AUDIO on December 11, 2022
DHAKA — Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged international partners to support her country’s efforts to implement its recently launched National Adaptation Plan (NAP) for 2023-2050, which requires a total of 230 billion U.S. dollars.
Bangladesh needs 230 billion U.S. dollars “for implementing our NAP from both domestic and international resources. Bangladesh continues to seek a 50-50 distribution between adaptation and mitigation from international climate financing,” she was quoted as saying by Bangladesh’s official news agency BSS. (Bangladeshi PM-NAP-Call)
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CANBERRA — A frog species that was once found across two-thirds of Australia’s wet tropics has been declared extinct.
The latest update of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list, the leading global assessment of extinction risk, downgraded the mountain mist frog from critically endangered to extinct. (Australia-Frog-Extinction)
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KUNDUZ, Afghanistan — Five passengers have been confirmed dead and 28 others injured as a passenger bus turned turtle in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province on Sunday, the provincial police said in a statement.
The road accident occurred outside the provincial capital city of Kunduz early morning due to reckless driving, leaving five dead including women and children and injuring 28 others, some of them in critical condition. (Afghanistan-Road Accident)
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MANILA — Eight passengers, including a five-year-old girl, died Saturday night in Rizal province of the Philippines after a flash flood swept a passenger jeepney, police said on Sunday.
Patrolman Jason Benitez of the Tanay town police told Xinhua that the accident happened before 9 p.m. local time on Saturday, while the jeepney carrying 25 passengers was crossing a river traveling north to a village from the town. (Philippines-Flash Flood-Passenger Car)
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