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President Biden called the legislation the most significant of its kind in decades; measures include restricting gun access for youngest buyers and bolstering mental health support.Bloomberg

China’s exports to India grew to US$27.1 billion in the first quarter of 2022, but India is concerned by its ballooning trade deficit with its neighbour amid strained ties two years after the deadly Galwan Valley clash.Ananta Agarwal

Summit preceded by tougher China rhetoric from Nato chief, not long after survey across member states shows uptick in views of Beijing as a security threat.Priyanka Shankar

Mayor Oleksandr Stryuk said ‘unfortunately, they have almost left the city’, the biggest reversal for Ukraine since losing the port of Mariupol in May.Reuters,dpa

China’s exports to India grew to US$27.1 billion in the first quarter of 2022, but India is concerned by its ballooning trade deficit with its neighbour amid strained ties two years after the deadly Galwan Valley clash.Ananta Agarwal

The China Major Bridge Engineering Company Ltd built the structure, said to later feature a rail network connecting to Belt and Road projects.Associated Press

The China Major Bridge Engineering Company Ltd built the structure, said to later feature a rail network connecting to Belt and Road projects.Associated Press

The city endured a lengthy lockdown as it tackled China’s worst outbreak since the early days of the pandemic.Zhuang Pinghui

Video images of apparent aftermath of mass crossing attempt of 2,000 into Spanish enclave Melilla showed bleeding and motionless people.Reuters

‘Women died getting abortions......we were trying to protect women’s rights, women’s lives, and now they’ve taken all that away from us’.Agence France-Presse

End Comfort Women Fraud group, who say there’s evidence of women signing contracts to work in brothels for Japanese military during colonial rule, are travelling to Germany, hoping a statue of a ‘comfort woman’ can be removed.Julian Ryall

End Comfort Women Fraud group, who say there’s evidence of women signing contracts to work in brothels for Japanese military during colonial rule, are travelling to Germany, hoping a statue of a ‘comfort woman’ can be removed.Julian Ryall

Chinese firmly oppose the US actions and troops remain on high alert, PLA Eastern Theatre Command spokesman says.Reuters

Australia, New Zealand and the UK are also part of the Partners in the Blue Pacific forum that will help Pacific island nations tackle challenges like climate change.Kyodo

Australia, New Zealand and the UK are also part of the Partners in the Blue Pacific forum that will help Pacific island nations tackle challenges like climate change.Kyodo

The final call between the French and Russian leaders just four days before Putin ordered the attack on Ukraine is filled with tension and bizarre moments.Agence France-Presse

The extrajudicial killings of some 8,000 people have ‘opened the floodgates for a type of governance that disregards the rule of law, due process and human rights’, activists sayRaissa Robles

The extrajudicial killings of some 8,000 people have ‘opened the floodgates for a type of governance that disregards the rule of law, due process and human rights’, activists sayRaissa Robles

Mainland official source says Xi Jinping will not stay overnight in Hong Kong.Nadia Lam,Tony Cheung

The decision to bulldoze Kowloon Walled City in 1993 wasted a chance to create a cultural treasure that celebrates its history and character. Instead of cookie-cutter shopping centres and residential towers, Hong Kong needs development that evolves from the local characteristics of each district.Dennis Lee

Ko Wen-je revives project to join Taiwan islet to mainland city, contending it would help ease cross-strait tensions, but opponents call it a ‘Trojan horse’ that would aid a People’s Liberation Army invasion.Lawrence Chung

For years, Chinese manufacturers worried about labour shortages over summer months when production is typically at its peak, but it is a different story in 2022, industry insiders say.He Huifeng,Luna Sun

The legislation comes after two massacres last month that saw 10 black shoppers gunned down in New York and 21 people, mostly children, slain in Texas.Agence France-Presse

Despite criticism from some quarters that it should stick to economics, the G7 has often been at its best during turbulent times. The grouping’s long-standing engagement with security issues and the uncertainty in Ukraine suggest its geopolitical role will only continue to grow.Andrew Hammond

The close encounter in orbit prompts experts to call for new rules and norms for the use of outer space.Amber Wang

The shadow government and UN denounced the military for transferring the ousted leader from house arrest to solitary confinement in prison this week.Min Ye Kyaw

China’s ambassador Xiao Qian said Australia had fired the ‘first shot’ in deteriorating trade relations but that there was an opportunity to improve bilateral ties.Reuters

Despite air quality in Jakarta often exceeding WHO guidelines, campaigners say the government is still not tackling pollution. It is even appealing against last year’s landmark court ruling which said air quality must be improved.Aisyah Llewellyn

Myanmar’s military government has confirmed that ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved to a prison compound in quarters separate from other detainees.Agence France-Presse

Japan’s shrinking population has long been an obsession, but its East Asian neighbours of South Korea and China are now facing the same problem as fertility rates, births and marriages fall, creating an economic headache for both Seoul and Beijing.Kim Bo-eun,Luna Sun

Vietnam’s first quarter exports reached US$88.58 billion, up by 12.9 per cent from the previous year, with Chinese state media comparing the shipments in the first three months of the year to China’s main export hub of Shenzhen.Luna Sun

Tom Andrews urged 10-member bloc Asean to follow Malaysia’s lead and move from non-interference to ‘non-indifference’ in Myanmar, with much more needing to be done to avoid more death and suffering.Hadi Azmi

Governor calls for further reduction of US military base as fears grow over regional military tension. The Battle of Okinawa killed about 200,000 people, nearly half of them local.Associated Press

People are finding peace and acceptance in the tranquil pastime, ‘Everyone can be a mermaid!’ Filipino mermaiding and free-diving teacher says.Associated Press

Thailand became the first Asian nation to decriminalise cannabis earlier this month. But tourists caught smuggling it into Indonesia could face the death penalty.Compiled by SCMP’s Asia desk

Fertiliser prices surged over the last year on logistics snarl-ups and the Ukraine war while an intake of foreign labourers was approved, there’s a prolonged delay in getting them.Bloomberg

Almost 12,000 expatriates around the world were interviewed, including in the Asia-Pacific region, for a well-being survey. 95 per cent of ‘top managers’ in Singapore mentioned burnout symptoms while almost half the Hong Kong respondents were planning to return home.Joseph Sipalan

Afghanistan faces a severe food and humanitarian crisis, with deaths expected to outstrip those during the 20-year war. If the US has concerns that aid funding will leak to the Taliban, it should work with UN agencies to carry out badly needed relief activities.Imran Khalid

Analysts say energy price hikes after renewal of IMF support package may push many more people into poverty and wreak havoc among 5.2 million small and medium-sized businesses.Tom Hussain

While there’s strong immunity, government is reminding people, particularly over 60s, that jab number 3 hugely reduces risk of death or serious illness.Kok Xinghui

More than 600 civic groups appealed against inviting General Mya Tun Oo, accusing him of complicity in violence by Myanmar’s military as it seeks to crush opposition to its seizure of power last year from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.Associated Press,Reuters

Hong Kong’s testing authority will allow students to submit scores from the Test of Proficiency in Korean in the foreign language category of the city’s university entrance exam starting from 2025.Kim Bo-eun,William Yiu

Ten travellers join seven-day trip organised by EGL Tours, which had previously pushed back the departure date from June 11 to June 15 and then to Wednesday.Rachel Yeo,Charmaine Choi,Laura Westbrook

He emphasised the need to ‘maintain stable and constructive relations’ between Tokyo and Beijing as the latter steps up military activity in the East China Sea.Associated Press

Women have borne the brunt of hardship two years after the pandemic, a new UN report shows.Raquel Carvalho

The patient in Singapore is a British flight attendant who had flown in and out of the country this month. South Korea is seeking to confirm two suspected infections. Confirmed cases worldwide now exceed 2,500.Reuters

North Korea is facing a potentially dire food situation this year, which has been exacerbated by disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic. In May, its monthly imports of Chinese soybeans surged.Ji Siqi,Kim Bo-eun

Hundreds of thousands of people have been moved to shelters, but at least 9 million are still stranded near their inundated homes. More than 50 people have been killed across both nations.Reuters