Within the first hundred days of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s administration, or by the beginning of October, the government plans to give booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccine to nearly 23 million individuals. In a message that she sent to CNN Philippines on Tuesday, the officer-in-charge Undersecretary of the Department of Health (DOH), Maria Rosario Vergeire, verified this aim. …

After being forced to postpone the event in Hangzhou due to COVID-19, the organizers of the 2022 Asian Games announced on Tuesday (July 19) that China will now host the games in 2023. The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) made the announcement on Tuesday that the Asian Games 2022 will now take place from September 23 to October 8, 2023. …

An American woman has been detained by the authorities in Delhi, the national capital of India, on suspicion that she staged her own kidnapping. According to the police, the woman, who is 27 years old, pretended to be kidnapped in order to “blackmail” her parents into sending her money when she was short on funds. A woman from the United …

The Ministry of Health (MOH) of Singapore said on Tuesday that a girl who was four years old and had COVID-19 passed away in Singapore on Sunday, the 17th of July. She is the second patient in Singapore under the age of 12 to pass away as a result of the disease. According to the Ministry of Health’s response to …

Significant international media coverage was given to President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s trip to France, stressing the strong bilateral ties between the two nations. The agreements and Memorandums of Understanding inked during the visit, which would strengthen the strategic alliance between the UAE and France, were praised by international media sources. According to the French newspaper …

SINGAPORE — Mahadi Ab Latif, 45, agreed to aid a friend from a halfway house who wanted to manufacture fake $100 bills to buy illegal smokes. The amount of bogus $100 local notes the police seized from the two forgers was $18,500. When he was arrested, Mahadi was working as a driver when he discovered an empty warehouse and helped …

CHINA — According to government data released on Monday (Jul 18), China’s aluminum imports decreased 36.3% in June from the same month a year earlier, as domestic output increased and demand remained weak. According to data from the General Administration of Customs, the country imported 187,362 metric tons of unwrought aluminum and its products, including raw metal and unwrought, alloyed …

INDONESIA — Due to the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of the general’s bodyguard at the general’s residence, the Indonesian National Police has suspended a two-star general from active duty and placed him on administrative leave. As the authorities investigate the killing of Nopryansyah Yosua Hutabarat, age 27, the chief of the National Police, Listyo Sigit Prabowo, announced on Monday …

MALAYSIA — The police in Malaysia have made a significant seizure of illegally traded animal parts, including elephant tusks, rhino horns, pangolin scales, and tiger bones. The total value of the haul is approximately 80 million ringgit ($17.9 million). On Sunday, authorities made a discovery at the western port in the state of Selangor that involved almost six tonnes of …

PHILIPPINES — As the supremo of Philippine weightlifting, there will be no shortage of possible heirs or heiresses of Tokyo Olympics gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz. With another world-class lifter in 15-year-old Angeline Colonia at the Asian Youth and Junior Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Colombia’s champion weightlifting machine continues to grind like clockwork. Colonia, who originates from Zamboanga just like Diaz, …