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“So far, US$20 million worth of tea has been exported to Iran under the barter trade agreement,” Sri Lankan Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena’s office said in a statement after talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.
About 29,000 nurses in the publicly funded healthcare system will be eligible under the new retention plan, in which they would receive payouts over a 20-year period, or up to the prevailing retirement age, whichever is earlier, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said in a speech on Tuesday.
The Southeast Asian nation will seek to get a new cannabis bill – which will explicitly outlaw recreational use of cannabis – approved by lawmakers in the lower house by the end of October, before parliament goes into recess, Health Minister Cholnan Srikaew said in an interview in Bangkok. That will follow a review by the cabinet next month, he said.
Finance and technology professionals are generally better paid in Hong Kong than in Singapore, with investment-banking analysts earning 46 per cent more than in the Southeast Asian city-state, according to a report from Bloomberg Intelligence.
Some 4,000 others fell sick between February 14 and February 18 due to fatigue after helping run the February 14 election, Hasyim Asy’ari, chairman of the nation’s poll body said in a press conference in Jakarta on Monday.
The Indonesian government has formed a 1 trillion rupiah (US$64 million) tourism fund to help it bid for such events.
The Malaysian ringgit is about 2 per cent away from reaching 4.8850 per US dollar, a level last seen in 1998 when the Asian financial crisis ravaged the region’s currencies. The local currency has dropped nearly 4 per cent this year.
The levy will vary depending on factors such as the length of the flight and whether the passenger is flying in economy or in premium class, Singapore’s government said on Monday at an aviation summit in the city state.