As a warm sunny Monday hangs around, here are some more things going on:
From The Mainichi, a group of Ainu file suit against the Japanese government asking for them to be exempted from the country's ban on commercial fishing of salmon in rivers.
From Vietnam Plus, the Vietnamese province of Binh Thuan likes turtles.
From the Borneo Post, according to Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, the Malaysian government promises to bring the country back to normal.
From Free Malaysia Today, the Malaysian navy claims that some recently leaked documents are "obsolete".
From The Straits Times, cross-border travel on a causeway between Singapore and Malaysia starts.
From The Jakarta Post, residents of Greater Jakarta find ways to celebrate Indonesia's Independence Day despite the coronavirus.
From Maldives Insider, the Maldive Islands welcomes over 5,000 tourists in the first month since it reopened.
From the Daily Mirror, according to new Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila, Sri Lanka will develop five more oil refineries.
From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka experiences an island-wide power outage.
From the Dhaka Tribune, the coronavirus genome in Bangladesh is determined to be similar to that in the U.S.
From The Hans India, a record 57,584 coronavirus patients in India recover in one day.
From the Hindustan Times, after 83 days, a natural gas blowout in the Baghjan oil field in the Indian state of Assam is capped.
From India Today, one person is killed and three others injured by an explosion at a chemical factory in the Palghar district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. (My spellchecker objects to "Palghar" but has no problem with "Maharashtra".)
From Khaama Press, in the Afghan province of Balkh, a group of Taliban IED makers are blown up by their own bomb. (The article calls them "experts", but if someone gets blown up while making a bomb, is/was that person really an "expert"?)
From Dawn, contrary to rumors, there is no power-sharing agreement in the Pakistani province of Sindh.
From The Express Tribune, three mountaineering friends try to bring Quetta, Pakistan back onto the domestic tourism map.
From Pakistan Today, Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff meets with his Saudi Arabian counterpart in a "fence-mending visit".
From Radio Farda, according to two studies, President Rouhani's administration has brought about Iran's worst economic performance in 32 years.
From IranWire, more political prisoners in Iran join a hunger strike.
From The New Arab, Israel starts looking for a place to establish its embassy in the UAE.
From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation issues thousands of permits for drones.
From the Ethiopian Monitor, the death toll from the siege in a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia rises to 17.
From the Egypt Independent, according to Egypt's foreign ministry, the dam talks will resume tomorrow.
From Arutz Sheva, an Arab man tries to stab an Israeli border policeman in the Old City of Jerusalem.
From The Times Of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is interviewed for the first time on UAE television.
From The Jerusalem Post, Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan shows the route taken by Hezbollah terrorists to infiltrate into Israel.
From YNetNews, Israelis are eager to tighten their ties with the UAE.
From The Syrian Observer, the burden of fighting the coronavirus falls heavily on the residents of the Syrian region of Suweida. (The article has yesterday's date, but TSO rarely publishes anything on Sundays. I thus believe that either that yesterday's date might be a mistake or that this article was published very late yesterday.)
From In-Cyprus, authorities shut down an illegal landfill near Nicosia, Cyprus.
From Panorama, visitors to Armenia are given the choice of a 14-day quarantine or a PCR coronavirus test. (via The Armenian Reporter)
From Rûdaw, Iraq and the U.S. will start the second round of a strategic dialogue.
From Hürriyet Daily News, Presidents Erdoğan (Turkey) and Putin (Russia) discuss Syria, Libya, and the eastern Mediterranean via a phone call.
From Turkish Minute, according to a poll, support for Erdoğan's party is at 33 percent.
From Morocco World News, blood banks in Morocco are at a "critical low" due to the coronavirus crisis.
And from Gatestone Institute, Wall Street wants more Chinese fraud.
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