ASIA TODAY China wants its students to study abroad again

Other news of the day: according to US sources, Israel is behind the attack on an arms factory in Iran; Yesterday two fatal accidents occurred in Pakistan. a boy from Bangladesh woke up in Malaysia after being locked in a container; Myanmar’s economy will grow 3% according to Central Bank estimates; Two Russians who fled the war will be able to stay in the United States thanks to the mediation of a priest of Ukrainian origin.

CHINA – AUSTRALIA

While Japan has made it known that it will continue monitoring the evolution of the pandemic of Covid-19 in China, Australia is preparing to welcome hundreds of Chinese students to its universities after the Ministry of Education in Beijing announced that diplomas and degrees obtained online will no longer be recognized For the state. About 150,000 Chinese students who were locked down by the “covid zero” policy are enrolled in Australian universities.

ISRAEL – IRAN

Apparently, Israel is after a drone attack against an arms factory in Isfahan yesterday, US officials said. Iran said no casualties or serious damage were reported, but Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian called it a “cowardly” attack aimed at creating “insecurity.”

PAKISTAN

More than 50 people died yesterday in Pakistan in two accidents: a bus fell into a ravine and killed 41 passengers, while 10 children between the ages of 7 and 14 drowned in a boat wreck in the Tanda reservoir in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on the border area with Afghanistan . They rescued 11 children and another ten are still missing.

MYANMAR

According to a report released today by the central bank, the Myanmar economy will grow about 3% this year, well below the levels reached before the coup. In 2021 Myanmar’s economy contracted by 18%. In the following months, the depreciation of the exchange rate caused an increase in inflation of almost 20%.

BANGLADESH – MALAYSIA

A Bangladeshi teenager was left accidentally locked in a container and was sent to Malaysia. Fahim, 15, was discovered six days later inside the container that arrived in West Port, Malaysia, on a ship from Chittagong, Bangladesh. According to some information sites, the boy was playing hide-and-seek when he was locked up.

RUSSIA – UKRAINE – UNITED STATES

Two inhabitants of the Russian region of Chukotka, who had fled the mobilization for the war in Ukraine by crossing the Bering Strait by boat, after three months of isolation by the border police finally obtained permission to remain on US soil thanks to the mediation of a priest of Ukrainian origin, who paid the canon and offered himself as guarantor.

RUSSIA – AFRICA

Metropolitan Leonid, exarch of Moscow for Africa, explained that the Russian Church “uses dozens of African languages ​​for celebrations, in addition to English and French, because Africa has a great variety of ethnic groups, populations, languages ​​and traditions.” This has provoked shocked reactions in Russia, where the liturgy remains rigidly associated with Old Church Slavonic.