Day: November 28, 2022

Doha, SANA- A 10-minute spell in the first half by the African nation gave them a 2-0 lead courtesy of goals from Southampton defender Mohammed Salisu and Ajax’s Mohammed Kudus.

However, noisy celebrations by Ghana fans at half time were dampened by a South Korea comeback after the break.

Two stunning headers in three minutes from Cho Gue-sung, the top scorer in his domestic league, levelled the game after 61 minutes.

But the impressive Kudus, who had deftly headed in Jordan Ayew’s cross in the first half, added a final twist when he thumped in a third for Ghana to break South Korea’s hearts.

Chances continued to fall South Korea’s way as they searched for another equaliser but, despite 10 minutes of added time, Ghana held on.

There were emotional scenes at the final whistle as many South Korea players fell to the ground while manager Paulo Bento was sent off for arguing with English referee Anthony Taylor for not allowing a corner to be taken despite the 10 minutes having elapsed.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)

Damascus, SANA- With the participation of a number of Arab and international researchers, the 2nd International Conference on Building Engineering started activities on Monday at Damascus University Auditorium under the title (Towards More Sustainable Facilities).

The conference is organized by the Higher Institute for Seismic Research and Studies at Damascus University, and it will last for three days.

The conference will include dialogue sessions that will discuss the importance of reinforced concrete structures in terms of design and rehabilitation, seismology and design of facilities to resist earthquakes, engineering management and implementation technology, environmental, health and geotechnical engineering, techniques for using building materials and the management of disasters and mitigating their damage.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)

Damascus, SANA- Information Ministry, in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and in coordination with Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC), has held a workshop entitled “media coverage of the challenges facing the humanitarian response”, dedicated to journalists working in the press offices at the state institutions.

Minister of Information, Boutros Al-Hallaq, asserted the importance of the Press Services in representing the ministries and the completion of their work thanks to their relations with the press organizations and their key role in facilitating the journalists’ tasks to obtain the required information.

“This workshop comes within unifying efforts and increasing the skills of our journalists,”al-Hallaq stated, adding that this one will be the start of a series of other similar workshops,

Al-Hallaq underlined the ministry’s readiness to offer every assistance contributing to uplifting the journalism in the country.

The workshop will last for three days in presence of numerous journalists and Press Office Directors related to ministries.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)

Damascus, SANA- With the participation of a number of Arab and international researchers, the 2nd International Conference on Building Engineering started activities on Monday at Damascus University Auditorium under the title (Towards More Sustainable Facilities).

The conference is organized by the Higher Institute of Earthquake Studies and Research (HIESR), and it will last for three days.

“The convening of the conference is the best evidence of the start of recovery and the lifting of the scientific blockade, through the publication of Syrian research in the most important a peer-reviewed journal, in addition to the participation of 88 researchers from 13 Arab, European, Asian and African countries, in arbitration of 120 articles and 85 of them were accepted in large number of Arab and foreign countries.” Hala Hasan, Dean of HIESR Institute stated.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)

The cabinet’s Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) said sovereign funds represent an innovative financing tool that surfaced to help achieve sustainable development.

This came in a video wired by the center to highlight the history of establishing sovereign funds.

The video said that the first sovereign fund was set up in Kuwait in 1953 with an aim to invest in oil revenues to maintain the rights of the coming generations.

The video added that the sovereign funds are established to realize three main goals; achieving stability and protecting the general budget and economy from fluctuating prices, saving through turning non-renewable accounts into diverse asset portfolios and, finally, realizing development through incentivizing finance of social and economic projects in order to increase gross domestic product, employment, etc.

Source: State Information Service Egypt

Health and Population Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar announced on Monday that a national campaign to vaccinate children against polio for free across the country will run from December 11 to December 14.

The campaign aims to vaccinate all children — Egyptian and foreign — from one day to five year old living in the country, he added.

In 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Egypt free of polio, said the minister, noting that the last case of polio recorded in Egypt was in 2004.

For his part, Head of the Preventive Medicine Sector Amr Kandil noted that the campaign will cover all Egyptian governorates through fixed clinics and mobile teams on streets and near churches, mosques, and metro stations.

Comprising 90,000 medical personnel, the campaign will also go door to door in all governorates, villages, and remote areas, he added.

Source: State Information Service Egypt