As a warm sunny Wednesday hangs around, here are some more things going on:
From The Mainichi, face masks made of silk and weighing just three grams are set to be on sale this summer in Japan.
From Vietnam Plus, the Vietnam News Agency releases a report in Vietnamese.
From the Borneo Post, Malaysian authorities seize 96,915 pieces of falsely branded clothing in the area of Batu Caves.
From Free Malaysia Today, about 11,000 foreign students apply to return to Malaysia and resume their studies.
From The Straits Times, China converts a hotel in Hong Kong into a new national security office.
From The Jakarta Post, retail sales in Indonesia have their biggest fall since 2008.
From Maldives Insider, foreign investors must register before carrying out any tourism activity in the Maldive Islands.
From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka eliminates the disease rubella before its 2023 target for doing so.
From the Colombo Page, no visitors are permitted at any prisons in Sri Lanka due to the coronavirus.
From the Dhaka Tribune, two branches of a hospital in Bangladesh are raided over the alleged issuing of fake coronavirus certificates.
From The Hans India, the coronavirus pandemic is persisting in India longer than predicted.
From the Hindustan Times, panic buying returns in Kolkata, India after the city announces a new lockdown.
From ANI, a man claimed to be 106 years old, who would have been a young boy during the Spanish flu, recovers from the coronavirus.
From India Today, a Bharatiya Janata Party leader, his brother and their father are shot dead by unidentified terrorists in the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
From Dawn, a journalist is arrested for allegedly killing his wife in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
From The Express Tribune, the International Federation of Airline Pilots' Association offers to assist Pakistan in investigating a plane crash in Karachi and allegations of fake licenses.
From Pakistan Today, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan calls for a combined strategy to help workers during the coronavirus pandemic.
From Radio Farda, at least six Iranian lawmakers test positive for the coronavirus.
From IranWire, the Iranian health ministry continues to misrepresent the country's coronavirus numbers.
From The New Arab, Hezbollah supporters protest a visit to Lebanon by U.S. Central Command chief Kenneth F. McKenzie.
From the Saudi Gazette, Al-Baha, Saudi Arabia produces 800 tons of honey every year.
From the Egypt Independent, Egypt reports its first day since May 27th with fewer than 1,000 new coronavirus cases.
From Egypt Today, Egypt's ministry of water resources points out some dam contentions.
From Arutz Sheva, the Israeli government considers closing nine cities due to the coronavirus.
From The Times Of Israel, an Israeli company claims to have invented a coronavirus test that gives results in 30 minutes, and that it will become globally available.
From The Jerusalem Post, a helicopter carrying IDF Chief of Staff Major General Aviv Kochavi almost crashes.
From YNetNews, it's a dog's life in the Gaza Strip.
From The Syrian Observer, leaders in the Syrian region of Qamlishi threaten the U.S. and praise Russia.
From In-Cyprus, Cyprus will construct a terminal for importing natural gas.
From Panorama, Armenia reports 535 new coronavirus cases and 8 more deaths. (via The Armenian Reporter)
From Rûdaw, at least six people are killed by a car bomb in Tal Abyad, Syria. (The article calls Tal Abyad a "border town", but it is in Syria and forms a divided city with the adjacent town of Akçakale in Turkey.)
From Hürriyet Daily News, Istanbul police raid a party on a yacht in the Bosphorus Strait over violations of coronavirus measures.
From Turkish Minute, Turkish gendarmes find a sunken migrant boat in Lake Van.
From Morocco World News, Morocco plans to reopen its borders to its citizens and to foreigners on July 14th.
From Coconuts Bali, the Central Lombok Regency in the Indonesian province of West Nusa Tenggara requires all female Muslim civil servants to wear a niqab due to the coronavirus.
From Vice, police in the Indonesian province of Aceh track down nine female cyclists for allegedly wearing "sexy" clothing.
From Today News Africa, the NGO Human Rights Watch calls in Nigerian police to release a humanist allegedly insulting the prophet Muhammad on Facebook.
And from Gatestone Institute, noted American anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan threatens people for advocating that people take a coronavirus vaccine if one is developed.
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