Xinhua
16 Jun 2022, 02:18 GMT+10
COLOMBO -- The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), with support from the Chinese government, donated essential medical equipment and supplies worth 800,000 U.S. dollars to Sri Lanka's Ministry of Health on Wednesday.
A total of 328,660 packs of supplies were handed over to the Family Health Bureau through the Ministry of Health, which will be used to equip public health staff actively working at the grassroot level. (Sri Lanka-China-UNFPA-Donation)
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HONG KONG -- John Lee, the newly-appointed sixth-term chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), on Wednesday welcomed the passage of the resolution on the proposed reorganization of the government structure for the sixth-term HKSAR government by the HKSAR Legislative Council (LegCo).
"I am grateful to LegCo for its careful scrutiny and passage of relevant legislative and funding proposals for the proposed reorganization of the government structure, so that when the sixth-term government takes office on July 1, it can operate under the new structure with three secretaries of departments and 15 policy bureaux," Lee said. (Hong Kong-Government Reorganization)
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MANILA -- Philippine health authorities on Wednesday urged people to remain vigilant amid an uptick of COVID-19 infections in Metro Manila and some parts of the country.
Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said Metro Manila, with averaged 170 infection cases daily in the past two weeks, "maintains a sharp increase." (Philippines-COVID-19-Vigilant)
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HANOI -- A webinar on Asia's renewable energy was held in Vietnam on Wednesday, highlighting the urgency to unleash clean energy potential in the region.
Officials and industry experts at the webinar titled "Asia: Renewable Energy Continent" agreed that more needs to be done to accelerate the transition from fossil fuel to renewable energy in Asia. (Vietnam-Webinar-Renewable Energy)
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