CANBERRA -- Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has declared Saturday's landmark referendum the only chance to establish an Indigenous Voice, ruling out future attempts to do so.
Albanese on Sunday said his Labor Party government would walk away from the voice proposal if the "yes" vote does not succeed in Saturday's referendum, voting in which is mandatory for all Australians aged 18 and over. (Australia-Indigenous Voice-Vote)
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HANOI -- The eighth plenum of the 13th Communist Party of the Vietnam Central Committee (CPVCC) concluded on Sunday with a consensus on improving the growth quality, creating jobs and increasing income for laborers.
In his closing remark, General Secretary of the CPVCC Nguyen Phu Trong said these goals should be realized based on maintaining macroeconomic stability and ensuring the economy's major balances and social security, Vietnam News Agency reported. (Vietnam-Party Central Committee)
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YANGON -- A total of 5,648 people were evacuated from their homes after torrential downpours hit Bago Region of southern Myanmar, an official said on Sunday.
Director of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement (Bago Region) U Thaung Shwe told Xinhua that as of Sunday noon, the evacuated have been shifted to 17 flood relief camps, with search and rescue operations underway. (Myanmar-Floods-Evacuation)
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HERAT, Afghanistan -- The death toll of the earthquakes in western Afghanistan has risen to 2,053, a spokesman for the national disaster authority, Mullah Janan Shaeq, said on Sunday.
Addressing a press conference in Herat, the official noted that 9,240 others were injured and 1,340 houses were destroyed in the earthquakes that shook Herat and the neighboring Badghis and Farah provinces on Saturday. (Afghanistan-Quake-3rd LD Writethru)
