BBC News - Asia

• Coronavirus: India overtakes Russia in Covid-19 cases
  India has been adding more than 20,000 fresh infections every day for the last four days.
• Coronavirus: Australia to close Victoria-New South Wales border
  The first closure of the border since the pandemic began follows a sharp rise in cases in Melbourne.
• Coronavirus in Singapore: Election campaigning without the handshakes
  Wooing the public typically involves physical interaction, but this vote is a little different.
• The North Korean refugees supplying PPE to care homes
  The North Korean refugees who have donated 7,000 sets of PPE to care homes in the north of England.
• China bubonic plague: Inner Mongolia takes precautions after case
  A rural herdsman tested positive for the infection, which can be treated with antibiotics.
• South Korea rejects US extradition request over child abuse website
  A Seoul court says the man behind a massive child sexual abuse website could help future...
• Coronavirus: Fujitsu announces permanent work-from-home plan
  The programme will offer "unprecedented flexibility" to 80,000 workers in Japan, says Fujitsu.
• Coronavirus: Why Singapore turned to wearable contact-tracing tech
  The TraceTogether Token is designed to make an app more effective, but worries privacy campaigners.
• Coronavirus funerals: Sri Lanka's Muslims decry forced cremation
  Sri Lankan authorities insist on cremation for coronavirus victims. Some Muslims says its...
• 'Why I've used skin-whitening products'
  Radio 1 Newsbeat ask people from South Asian backgrounds about using of skin-lightening products.
• The Grand Old Man of India who became Britain's first Asian MP
  Indian-born Dadabhai Naoroji was the first Asian to sit in the House of Commons.
• Coronavirus: Japan's mysteriously low virus death rate
  Japan had no lockdown, it has an elderly population - so why haven't more people died from Covid-19?
• India coronavirus: Questions over death of man 'turned away by 18 hospitals'
  Bhawarlal Sujani breathed his last at the doorstep of a hospital that had refused to admit him.
• Coronavirus: Singapore hotels prepare for different summer season
  Staff in Singapore’s hotels are preparing for a very different kind of summer season.
• Coronavirus: Yo! Sushi adapts conveyor belt system
  As Yo! Sushi prepares to reopen some restaurants in England, it has had to adapt its conveyor belt...