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UAE: AlQurm Protected Area in Khor Kalba joins IOSEA Marine Turtle MoU
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
The Environment and Protected Areas Authority in Sharjah (EPAA) announced that the AlQurm Protected Area in Kalba City has joined the Indian Ocean's South-East Asian (IOSEA) Marine Turtle memorandum of understanding (MoU).
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WHO calls on member countries to eliminate illicit trade in Tobacco, contr
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
The World Health Organisation has called on the member nations in the Southeast Asia region to recognise that alcohol and tobacco in any form, whether legal or illicit, are harmful to one's health, and thus decisive actions must be taken to stop the illicit trade in tobacco products and to t
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World Environment Day 2024: Generation Restoration initiative takes action
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
This year, World Environment Day (WED) 2024 focuses on land restoration, halting desertification and building drought resilience under the slogan "Our land. Our future. We are #GenerationRestoration," wrote WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia, Saima Wazed.
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Singapore-based Bollywood Rock Cafe & production house "Rocking Ricksh
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 3: Rocking Rickshaw, one of Singapore's most popular Bollywood themed restaurants & production house, is signing contracts with various Indian Bollywood Music Bands to perform at their Singapore and Kuala Lumpur outlets that's slated to open in June 2024. The sele
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India's data centres capacity poised to double every couple of years: CBRE
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Anshuman Magazine, who heads India operations besides South-East Asia, Middle East, and Africa, for commercial real estate services and investment firm, CBRE, spoke to ANI, here in New Delhi, where he shared his views on wide range of topics, including data centre trends in India, rising 'gh
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WHO, experts meet to strategise strengthening community engagement; resili
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
"Strengthening the WHO's engagement with communities to enhance health outcomes and protect against emergencies is a top priority," said Saima Wazed, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia.
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Efforts to prevent, control hypertension need to be further strengthened t
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia, Saima Wazed, on the occasion of World Hypertension Day, emphasised that the efforts to prevent and control hypertension need to be further strengthened to meet global and national targets.
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"I want India to become capital of South East Asia...": PM Modi
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed that he would want India to be the capital of South East Asia, and emphasised that India's progress poses no threat to anyone and as India progresses, the burden of the world reduces.
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India among Asian countries hit by heatwave in 2023: UN report
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
According to the 'The State of the Climate in Asia 2023' report, prolonged heatwaves affected South and South-East Asia in early summer.
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South-East Asia region made "notable progress" in advancing right to healt
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
"Our South-East Asia Region has made notable progress in advancing this right to health. From enhancements in healthcare coverage to declines in maternal and child mortality rates, there are achievements to be celebrated," Wazed said on the eve of World Health Organisation's founding anniver
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TB mortality rate in South-East Asia rose 8.6 per cent in 2021: WHO
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
The tuberculosis mortality rate in the Southeast Asia region saw a rise of 8.6 per cent in 2021 as compared to 2015, according to an official release from the World Health Organisation (WHO).
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Deinstitutionalise mental health care, strengthen community-based services
Updated : 2 years ago IST
The Regional Director released a report on 'Deinstitutionalisation of people with mental health conditions in WHO South-East Asia Region', which while acknowledging the complexities and unique contexts of each country, offers recommendations that can be adapted to local realities.
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