Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Wednesday Whatnot - Part 2

As a warm Wednesday hangs around, here are some more things going on:

From The Mainichi, Kobe, Japan will offer volunteer jobs and allowances to foreign students during the coronavirus crisis.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnam grants e-visas to citizens of 80 countries starting in July.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysia has sufficient supplies of food and other necessities to last during the coronavirus pandemic.

From Free Malaysia Today, nine people are fined for having a barbecue behind an apartment block in Kota Damansara, Malaysia.

From The Straits Times, a guide to what you can do in Singapore as it goes into Phase 1 of its post-circuit breaker period starting on June 2nd.

From The Jakarta Post, places of worship in Indonesia in coronavirus "green zones" will reopen gradually as the "new normal" takes effect.

From Maldives Insider, 467 Maldivian resort workers start quarantine in Male so they can later return to their home islands.

From the Daily Mirror, the Sri Lankan ministry of health issues timelines for resuming various activities.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka donates Ceylon tea to frontline U.K. health workers.  (Sri Lanka has also been known as Ceylon.)

From the Dhaka Tribune, 161 more Bangladeshi police officers recover from the coronavirus.

From The Hans India, does China want war with India over a standoff at the border of the territory of Ladakh?

From the Hindustan Times, U.S. President Trump offers to mediate between India and China.

From ANI, India's Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare steps up its fight against locusts.

From India Today, nine passengers have been found dead on India's migrant-transporting "Shramik Special" trains since Monday.

From Khaama Press, U.S. military commanders discuss "earlier than planned" troop reductions in Afghanistan.

From Dawn, the Pakistani army shoots down an Indian quad-copter spy drone in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.  ("Azad Jammu and Kashmir" is Pakistan's term for the part of Jammu and Kashmir under its control, the word azad meaning "free".  It calls the Indian-controlled part "Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir".)

From The Express Tribune, many in Karachi, Pakistan ignore health advice during Eid prayers.

From Pakistan Today, the party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz slams the Pakistani government for allowing the export of sugar when it was in shortage.

From Radio Farda, a former Tehran mayor once accused of corruption is set to become the speaker of the Iranian parliament.

From IranWire, residents of Tehran deal with high housing prices.

From The New Arab, exiled Western Saharan artist Aziza Brahim sings the desert blues.

From the Saudi Gazette, the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center launches a project to combat malaria in Yemen, backed by the WHO.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, over 300,000 people in Ethiopia are displaced by floods.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopian talk about resuming their dam negotiations.

From Egypt Today, Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi inspects road and bridge construction in eastern Cairo.

From Arutz Sheva, an IDF soldier who lost a leg in a ramming attack is given an award for distinguished service.

From The Times Of Israel, an Israeli High Court justice calls having the government run by an indicted prime minister a "moral failure".

From The Jerusalem Post, Yamina Party leader Naftali Bennett calls U.S. President Trump's peace plan a "disaster" for Israel.

From YNetNews, according to an opinion column, Trump's peace plan "is a trap".

From The Armenian Reporter, Armenia's Sandarapat Memorial will remain closed tomorrow as the country observes Republic Day.

From The Syrian Observer, Turkish armored vehicles enter the Syrian region of Idleb.

From In-Cyprus, Cyprus expects its tourism industry to bounce back in July.

From Rûdaw, Iraq's Kurdistan Region will keep its ban on travel between provinces until June 16th.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey might lift its inter-city travel restrictions in early June.

From Turkish Minute, the 550-year-old Grand Bazaar in İstanbul will be reopened next Monday after being closed due to the coronavirus.

From Morocco World News, a Moroccan court reduces the prison sentence for a YouTube user jailed for diffusing fake news about the coronavirus.

From the Daily Observer, according to a Liberia's chief imam, the country is on a "dangerous path" if it doesn't grant Muslims a national holiday.

From Gatestone Insitute, home demolitions aren't done just by Israel any more.

And from NBC News, the SpaceX launch scheduled for today is postponed until Saturday.

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