Starting with the Far East, where Columbus thought he was going, here are some more things going on:
From The Mainichi, how much will it cost Japan to hold the postponed Olympic games in Tokyo?
From Vietnam Plus, Prime Ministers Nguyen Xuan Phuc (Vietnam) and Suga Yoshihide (Japan) hold talks over the phone.
From the Borneo Post, the Malaysian Ministry of Health applies for 1,899 more personnel.
From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysia closes 2,797 schools, affecting almost 2 million children.
From The Straits Times, Singapore and Malaysia announce a reciprocal green lane for cross-border travel.
From The Jakarta Post, a teenager kidnapped when he was a young child is reunited with his family with the help of Google Maps.
From Maldives Insider, the Maldive Islands offers wholesome family holidays.
From the Daily Mirror, the waste authority in Sri Lanka's Western Province urges people self-quarantining due to the coronavirus to use yellow bags for their trash.
From the Colombo Page, the Ramanna Samagari Maha Sanga Sabha recommends against passing the proposed 20th Amendment to Sri Lanka's Constitution.
From the Dhaka Tribune, the Bangladeshi government approves the death penalty as the maximum punishment for rape.
From The Hans India, high-ranking Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists are holed up in the Srinagar district of the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
From the Hindustan Times, India and China hold their seventh military talks in the region of Ladakh.
From ANI, Darpan face recognition technology helps 33 mission children in India to reunite with their parents.
From India Today, Hindu activists in the Indian state of Assam protest against the feeding of beef to zoo animals.
From Khaama Press, according to Afghan First Vice President Amrullah Saleh, the Taliban consider a ceasefire to be a political defeat.
From Dawn, the main suspect in the Lahore-Sialkot motorway gang-rape case is arrested in Faisalabad, Pakistan.
From The Express Tribune, Prime Minister Imran Khan is told that the coronavirus is again spreading in Pakistan.
From Pakistan Today, authorities in the Pakistani province of Punjab arrest 47 people for allegedly profiteering.
From Radio Farda, 30,000 girls under the age of 14 are forced to marry in Iran every year.
From IranWire, Lake Urmia in western Iran is drying up.
From The New Arab, Kuwait hands over to Egypt three suspected members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia will allow 250,000 domestic pilgrims to perform the Umrah in Mecca.
From the Ethiopian Monitor, the Ethiopian government will deploy more aircraft against locusts.
From the Egypt Independent, President Abdel al-Sisi encourages awareness and offers hope in a speech to the Egyptian people.
From Egypt Today, Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli and Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein discuss bilateral cooperation.
From Arutz Sheva, how Arabs took over land in the Israeli region of Binyamin near Route 60.
From The Times Of Israel, positive coronavirus tests in Israel hit their lowest number since August.
From The Jerusalem Post, the Israeli cabinet authorizes the peace treaty with the UAE.
From YNetNews, restrictions on protests in Israel will end tomorrow.
From The Syrian Observer, Syrian fighters die in Nagorno-Karabakh as their presence there is denied.
From In-Cyprus, Cyprus announces stricter coronavirus measures.
From ArmenPress, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan meets with ambassadors and emphasizes recognizing the right of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh to have self-determination.
From Rûdaw, Syrian civilians displaced by Turkey a year ago long for home.
From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey sends the research vessel Oruç Reis back into the eastern Mediterranean.
From Turkish Minute, 23 people in Turkey die from alcohol poisoning after the sale of ethanol for home use is banned.
From Morocco World News, King Mohammed VI gives instructions on dealing with Libya to Morocco's diplomats.
And from Gatestone Institute, Saudi Arabia, like other Arab counties, is "fed up" with the Palestinians.
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