Day: November 7, 2021

JALALABAD, Afghanistan– A total of 25 militants, affiliated with the hardliner Daesh group, laid down their arms and surrendered to authorities in Jalalabad yesterday, head of the intelligence agency, in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, said.

 

The former militants were active in Spinghar, Pachiragam and Batikot districts, and the security forces would further stabilise the situation in Nangarhar and its vicinity, Mohammad Bashir, said.

 

Former militant, Ziaudin called upon all insurgents to give up fighting and support peace and security in Afghanistan, in his speech at the surrendering ceremony.

 

This is the second Daesh group that has surrendered to authorities in Nangarhar province.

 

On Friday 55 Daesh insurgents surrendered to security authorities in Jalalabad city.

 

The hardliner Daesh outfit, which is active in parts of the Nangarhar province with Jalalabad, 120 km east of Kabul, as its capital, has yet to comment on the development.

 

Source: NAM NEWS NETWORK

CANBERRA– A video clip of Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, making a mistake during a COP26 speech, has gone viral on social media, with Twitter users saying it was a “Freudian slip.”

 

Morrison, supposed to say “global momentum to tackle climate change,” mistakenly said “to tackle China,” during his address at the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

 

Krishani Dhanji, a political producer with Australia’s SBS News, shared the video footage on Twitter, saying, “A faux pas from the PM?”

 

Morrison, Dhanji added, appeared to say “global momentum to tackle ‘China’” instead of “climate change” before correcting himself.

 

The post attracted lots of comments.

 

“Poor fellow always switched on with anti-China mode,” said a Twitter user, who goes by the name Prasanna Shan.

 

“Well spotted. A classic Freudian slip of the tongue,” said another, who goes by the name, Leni Barid.

 

Source: NAM NEWS NETWORK

HANOI– Authorities of the Vietnamese capital Hanoi, inaugurated the China-built Cat Linh-Ha Dong metro line project yesterday, making it the first metro line in the country to start commercial operation.

 

The project was handed over to Hanoi by its investor, the Vietnamese Ministry of Transport, on the same day. All passengers on the metro line can enjoy free rides during the first 15 days of the commercial run.

 

After taking a free two-way trip yesterday morning, Hoang Thi Huong, a 30-year-old passenger from Hanoi’s Thanh Xuan district, said, the metro line is as modern as those she had seen overseas.

 

“Taking these trains, I will no longer have to worry about congestion every morning, while going to work,” Huong said, hoping that more urban railway projects will be constructed to ease transportation in the city.

 

The elevated line is more than 13 km with 12 stations. Each train, with a designed speed of 80 km per hour, has four carriages capable of carrying up to 1,000 passengers.

 

The Cat Linh-Ha Dong elevated railway project, officially started construction in Oct, 2011. Its trial run was completed in Dec, 2020, with more than 70,000 km of tests on thousands of trips, enabling the system to operate commercially, according to its investors.

 

Tickets for passengers will be priced at 30,000 Vietnamese dong (1.33 U.S. dollars) for a day pass, and 200,000 Vietnamese dong (8.83 U.S. dollars) for a monthly one.

 

 

Source: NAM NEWS NETWORK

Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III has directed the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration to commence processing the deployment of workers to South Korea following the announced lifting of restrictions on the entry of foreign workers there.

Saying the Philippines welcomed Korea’s decision, Bello added, “This is a very good news not only to our EPS workers and their families, but also to the Korean employers who have been waiting for our workers to return.”

On Friday, Korea’s Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL) announced that it will allow the entry of workers under its entry permit system (EPS) from all sending countries, including the Philippines before the end of this month.

Bello said that the lifting of restriction for EPS workers is a much-awaited development for thousands of EPS workers who have been waiting for their deployment since last year.

According to MOEL, the entry of EPS workers will be subject to pre-entry measures such as full vaccination and negative PCR test results, and post-entry measures such as mandatory quarantine and PCR testing.

The Korean Embassy in the Philippines said that it is awaiting guidelines from the South Korean government on the issuance of E9 visas to Filipino EPS workers following the announcement from MOEL.

Bello directed the POEA to immediately meet with the HRDK EPS Center in the Philippines to flesh out the requirements and procedures for the safe and orderly entry and re-entry of EPS workers to Korea, in coordination with the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) in the Philippine Embassy in Seoul.

Since 2004, the Philippines has been sending Filipino workers to Korea under a government-to-government cooperation agreement on EPS. The deployment of workers, however, was temporarily halted due to ROK’s entry restrictions since June 2020 as part of COVID measures.

 

Source: Department Of Labor and Employment Republic of Philippines