International

11th APEC Tourism Ministerial Meet from August 14 in Thailand
Thailand is to host the 11th APEC Tourism Ministerial Meeting and the 60th APEC Tourism Working Group Meeting in Bangkok from August 14-20, 2022. According to Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), Minister of Tourism and Sports of Thailand Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn Read More

From Sept, Thailand to introduce 10-year visa
One of the ASEAN countries, Thailand has planned to implement a 10-year visa effective September 2022. As Thailand aims to attract over 1 million people from advanced economies, this 10-year visa system is aiming to attract skilled workers and investors Read More

G7 Ministers on energy security
The G7-- Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States of America’s Foreign Ministers and the High Representative of the European Union are steadfast in their condemnation of Russia’s brutal, unprovoked, unjustifiable, and illegal war of aggression Read More
France, UK, US speak on NPT
For more than fifty years, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has been an irreplaceable and vital component of a global rules-based order. We reaffirm the NPT as the cornerstone of the nuclear nonproliferation regime and as the foundation for the Read More

Panama to host 8th OOC next year
Panama is to host the eighth “Our Ocean Conference (OOC)” in 2023 and Greece prepares to host the ninth OOC in 2024. As stated in the press note of the US Department of State, the Republic of Korea’s (ROK) will Read More

Global alliance to end AIDS in children by 2030
Globally, only half (52%) of children living with HIV are on life-saving treatment, far behind adults where three quarters (76%) are receiving antiretrovirals, according to the data that has just been released in the UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2022. Concerned Read More

Xi, Biden talk on phone
Chinese President Xi Jinping and the U.S. President Joe Biden talked for two hours and 17 minutes on the phone on Thursday evening over various areas of cooperation, including climate change, China-U.S. relations and Ukraine crisis. This was the fifth Read More

World Hepatitis Day 2022
Today July 28 is the World Hepatitis Day. It is being observed each year on July 28 to raise awareness of viral hepatitis, which causes inflammation of the liver that leads to severe disease and liver cancer. Hepatitis is a Read More

Journalists’ World Congress from Sept. 8
The International Press Institute (IPI), first started in 1950 at Columbia University in New York, is hosting the 2022 World Congress from September 8 to 10, 2022. According to information, journalists worldwide can attend a hybrid and in-person press freedom Read More

World Drowning Prevention Day –today
To mark the World Drowning Prevention Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) has called to “do one thing” to prevent drowning that claims over 236, 000 lives each year and considered one of the leading causes of death globally for Read More