As Cinco de Mayo hangs around, here are some more things going on:
From The Mainichi, graffiti targeting residents of Wuhan, China over the coronavirus is found in a restroom at the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo.
From Vietnam Plus, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam extends its quarantine period for recovered coronavirus patients.
From the Borneo Post, the first day of Malaysia's Conditional Movement Control Order shows a traffic situation under control despite higher volume.
From Free Malaysia Today, 59 chambers of commerce urge Malaysia's states to reopen the economy.
From The Straits Times, Hong Kong will allow schools, gyms and cinemas to reopen on May 7th.
From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia targets a local coronavirus strain with a vaccine development program.
From Maldives Insider, how the coronavirus has changed people's views on travel.
From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka's Public Administration Ministry files a lawsuit against 22 former ministers and officials for not leaving their official residences.
From the Colombo Page, SriLankan Airlines launches cargo flights to Europe, the Middle East, the Far East and the Indian subcontinent.
From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh decides to keep its courts closed until May 16th due to the coronavirus.
From The Hans India, the Indian state of Telangana extends its coronavirus lockdown until May 29th.
From the Hindustan Times, India raises its gasoline taxes.
From ANI, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi plans to restore OPD and non-emergency services.
From India Today, 650,000 stranded migrant workers have been brought back to the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
From Dawn, the Pakistani province of Balochistan decides to test only people who show symptoms from the coronavirus.
From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani government will allow its coronavirus lockdown to ease after May 9th.
From Pakistan Today, the Pakistani cabinet approves the export of rice and the reconstitution of the National Commission for Minorities.
From Khaama Press, the Afghan government releases 102 Taliban prisoners, with more to be released when intra-Afghan talks get started.
From Radio Farda, the Civil Registration Organization of Iran will not release the country's number of deaths from the coronavirus.
From IranWire, a Baha'i carpenter is arrested in Isfahan, Iran for allegedly building boxes for prayer books.
From StepFeed, Expo 2020 Dubai is postponed for one year.
From The New Arab, Lebanon extends its partial coronavirus lockdown without any new cases being reported.
From the Saudi Gazette, plasma from three coronavirus patients is used for treatment of active patients in three areas of Saudi Arabia.
From the Ethiopian Monitor, the Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund procures medical supplies for use in Ethiopia. (This site is no longer giving me a privacy warning. Perhaps whatever problems the site was having have discontinued.)
From the Egypt Independent, the Egyptian Tourism Federation announces a plan to safely resume receiving tourists.
From Egypt Today, Egypt's higher education ministry conducts 22 clinical trials for a potential cure for the coronavirus.
From Arutz Sheva, Israel appears to be on its way to beating the coronavirus.
From The Times Of Israel, Israel's Biological Research Institute announces a breakthrough with a coronavirus antibody, but states that a cures is still months away.
From The Jerusalem Post, a look at Israel's plan to lift its coronavirus lockdown.
From YNetNews, some private preschools and kindergartens in Israel decide to remain closed this coming Sunday.
From The Syrian Observer, nine Syrian policemen are killed by terrorists in the region of Daraa.
From In-Cyprus, a list of labs in Cyprus which conduct coronavirus tests for workers.
From Rûdaw, the Iraqi military goes after ISIS terrorists in the province of Saladin.
From Hürriyet Daily News, according the Turkish Interior Ministry, 400,000 Syrians have returned home from Turkey.
From Turkish Minute, all major factories in Turkey are reportedly set to resume operating on May 11th.
From Morocco World News, the Moroccan House of Councillors is set to adopt an electronic voting system.
And from Gatestone Institute, a comparison of how judges rule in the U.S. and Israel.
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