Monday, July 20, 2020

Links For Moon Landing Day - Part 2

As a pleasant Monday hangs around on the 51st anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, here are some more things going on:

From The Mainichi, the head of Tokyo's board of education on a school hairstyle ban has some people scratching their heads.

From Vietnam Plus, over 100,000 national flags are presented to Vietnamese fishermen.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysia's health director-general tells people to wear their masks properly or completely remove them while eating.

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysia's immigration department suspects that a ring providing forged documents to foreign workers might include its own insiders.  (This would show that illegal aliens, who are often referred to by the euphemism "undocumented" should really be called "falsely documented".)

From The Straits Times, an Indonesian court sentences the leader of Jemaah Islamiah to seven years in prison for inciting terrorism.

From The Jakarta Post, under a new regulation, Indonesia's State Intelligence Agency will work directly under President Joko Widodo.

From Maldives Insider, four steps to entering the Maldive Islands to manage a resort.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lankan politician Ranil Wickremesinghe urges quick action against the people who destroyed the Assembly Hall of King Buwanekabahu in the city of Kurunegala.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka's election commission requests that campaign events are not held at houses of worship.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urges all efforts to be made to tackle the flood situation in Bangladesh.

From The Hans India, over 7 million people are affected by floods in the Indian state of Assam.

From the Hindustan Times, India plans to induct five French-built Rafale fighter jets at Ambala air base on July 29th.

From ANI, the Congress party in the Indian state of Karnataka slams a decision to give beds used by coronavirus patients to government-run hostels.

From India Today, a court in Delhi allows 112 people from Kyrgyzstan and Bangladesh who had attended a Tablighi Jamaat event during a coronavirus lockdown to pay fines and walk free.

From Khaama Press, the good guys in Afghanistan destroy 20 Taliban tunnels in the province of Helmand.

From Dawn, Pakistan resumes its effort to immunize people against polio.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan's central government urges the province of Sindh to lower the price of wheat flour.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi defends the dual nationalities of technical experts.

From Radio Farda, Iran executes a man for "spying" despite a popular movement against executions.

From IranWire, President Rouhani admits that 25 million Iranians may have contracted the coronavirus.

From StepFeed, pop singer Dua Lipa calls attention to the economic crisis in Lebanon, but did doing this have a point?

From The New Arab, a Lebanese judge orders the seizure of the assets of the governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia announces that Eid Al-Adha will start on July 31st.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, South Korea's Export-Import Bank loans $70 million to Ethiopia for efforts against the coronavirus.

From the Egypt Independent, Sudan reports a sudden decrease in the level of the Nile.

From Egypt Today, the Egyptian parliament reportedly gives President Abdel El-Sisi authorization to send troops into Libya.

From Arutz Sheva, a synagogue in Jerusalem could lose its building.

From The Times Of Israel, what 1,000 U.S. police officers learned in Israel, and why this program is controversial.

From The Jerusalem Post, airstrikes allegedly from Israel injure seven Syrians.

From YNetNews, nurses in Israel end their strike after reaching an agreement with the country's finance ministry.

From The Syrian Observer, according to Syrian lawyer Abdel Nasser Hoshan, the elections planned for the country are unconstitutional.

From In-Cyprus, ten women who entered Cyprus are detained for allegedly forming sham marriages.

From Rûdaw, security talks resume in Erbil, Iraq between Peshmerga and the Iraqi army.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to presidential spokesperson İbrahim Kalın, Turkey and Greece are engaging in a backchannel dialogue.

From Turkish Minute, over 200,000 displaced Syrians have reportedly returned to the region of Idlib since March, due to an agreement between Turkey and Russia.

From Morocco World News, Moroccan journalist Hamid El Mahdaoui leaves prison after serving a three-year sentence.

From Michael Smith News, the World Health Organization recognizes "Palestine" as a country, but not Taiwan.

And from Gatestone Institute, the 2007 U.N. declaration on the rights of indigenous people and the indigenous rights of the Jews.

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