On a sunny but chilly New Year's Day, here are some more things going on:
From The Mainichi, Japanese Emperor Naruhito hopes for a disaster-free year.
From the Borneo Post, 5,000 environmental health officers go on patrol to enforce Malaysia's new ban on smoking in restaurants.
From Free Malaysia Today, more than 160 people so far have been caught violating the smoking ban.
From The Straits Times, over a million people participated in a pro-democracy march in Hong Kong, according to the march's organizers.
From The Jakarta Post, the heaviest rainfall in over a decade causes large floods in Jakarta, Indonesia.
From the Daily Mirror, according to a parliamentcritter, the Tamil version of Sri Lanka's constitution includes a Tamil translation of its national anthem.
From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa helps plant a tree.
From the Dhaka Tribune, the Bangladeshi government restores mobile networks in the country's border areas.
From The Hans India, the Indian government approves its third lunar mission.
From the Hindustan Times, four Indian astronauts are selected to undergo training for the Gaganyaan mission.
From ANI, police in Ghaziabad, India arrest three men and recover 90 fake passports. (Somehow, I keep finding stories about fake passports.)
From India Today, protests against the Citizenship Act take place amid New Year celebrations in Delhi.
From Khaama Press, the communications company MTN Afghanistan has allegedly bribed the Taliban into leaving its towers alone.
From Dawn, a Chinese national is arrested for allegedly beating up a Pakistani traffic cop.
From The Express Tribune, Pakistan rings in the New Year with an economic petrol bomb.
From Pakistan Today, Pakistan urges India to end the lockdown in the part of Kashmir that it controls.
From Radio Farda, Iran's Shiite religious capital Qom has the highest number of female drug addicts in the country.
From StepFeed, 15 problems that Arabs will continue to face in the next decade.
From The New Arab, a Sudanese passport stamp gives December of 2019 an extra day.
From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish authorities detain 13 people for allegedly planning terror attacks.
From Turkish Minute, Albania reportedly decides to deport a Gülen-affiliated teacher to Turkey, despite a court ruling against the move.
From Rûdaw, a reported 1.35 million internally displaced Iraqis returned to their homes in 2019.
From In-Cyprus, international arrest warrants are issued for three Israeli men in connection with a "spy van" seen in Cyprus.
From Arutz Sheva, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu announces his request for temporary immunity.
From The Times Of Israel, according to an editorial, Netanyahu's bid for immunity is "an act of desperation".
From The Jerusalem Post, Israel and Hamas are reportedly moving towards a ceasefire agreement.
From YNetNews, according to an opinion column, "Israel should stand up for Jews wherever they are".
From the Egypt Independent, Egypt's new Sphinx Airport receives its first international flight.
From Egypt Today, Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli witnesses the signing of an environmental memorandum of understanding between two ministries.
From Morocco World News, Moroccan travelers will be able to take a larger amount of foreign currency with them when they leave the country.
From My Nation, how a thousand Muslim men sexually assaulted women during a New Year's celebration in Cologne, Germany four years ago.
And from Gatestone Institute, anti-Christian attacks in Europe reached an all-time high in 2019.
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