6. KP govt upgrades 0.13m teachers in `last` cabinet meeting
• In the `last` cabinet meeting before the dissolution of the provincial assembly, the cash-strapped Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on January 17, 2023 approved the upgradation of over 130,000 teachers at the annual cost of several billion rupees.
• The cabinet met with Chief Minister Mahmood Khan in the chair and ministers and administrative secretaries in attendance.
• Spokesman for the government Barrister Mohammad Ali Saif later told reporters that the cabinet held its last meeting and discussed 23 agenda items.
• Accompanying elementary and secondary education minister Shahram Khan Tarakai said the cabinet discussed the proposed upgradation of teachers of various cadres
7. UN experts alarmed at rising cases of forced marriages in Pakistan
• UN human rights experts have expressed alarm at the reported rise in abductions, forced marriages and conversions of underage girls and young women from religious minorities in Pakistan, and called for immediate efforts to curtail practices and ensure justice for victims.
• `We urge the government to take immediate steps to prevent and thoroughly investigate these acts objectively in line with domestic legislation and international human rights commitments.
• Perpetrators must be held fully accountable,` the experts said in a statement issued in Geneva on Monday
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8. Vietnam president steps down amid anti-graft purge
• Vietnam President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has resigned, state media said on January 17, 2023, after days of rumours he was about to be sacked as part of a major anti-corruption drive that has seen several ministers fired.
• The sudden departure is a highly unusual move in communist Vietnam, where political changes are normally carefully orchestrated, with an emphasis on cautious stability. Only one other Communist Party president has ever stepped down, and that was for health reasons.
• `The resignation of President Nguyen Xuan Phuc is an unprecedented move in the history of the party,` said Nguyen Khac Giang, research fellow at the Vietnam Centre for Economic and Strategic Studies (VESS)
9. Sweden, Finland must hand over 130 `terrorists`, says Erdogan
• Sweden and Finland must deport or extradite up to 130 `terrorists` to Turkiye before the Turkish parliament will approve their bids to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato), President Tayyip Erdogan said on January 17, 2023.
• The two Nordic states applied last year to join Nato following Russia`s invasion of Ukraine, but their bids must be approved by all 30 Nato member states. Turkiye and Hungary have yet to endorse the applications.
• Turkiye has said Sweden in particular must first take a clearer stance against what it sees as `terrorists`, mainly Kurdish militants and a group it blames for a 2016 coup attempt
10. China`s population shrinks for first time in 60 years
• China`s population shrank last year for the first time in more than six decades, official data showed on January 17, 2023, as the world`s most populous country faces a looming demographic crisis.
• The nation of 1.4 billion has seen birth rates plunge to record lows as its workforce ages, in a rapid decline that analysts warn could stymie economic growth and pile pressure on strained public coffers.
• The mainland Chinese population stood at around 1,411,750,000 at the end of 2022, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported, a decrease of 850,000 from the end of the previous year.
• The number of births was 9.56 million, the NBS said, while the number of deaths stood at 10.41m
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