* China's central bank said it will step up prudent monetary policy support to the real economy, especially to small firms hit by COVID-19, responding to a media question seeking comment on swings in the financial markets.
* Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio said on Tuesday that strategic cooperation between Japan and the Republic of Korea is now more necessary than ever.
* A grand military parade was held on Monday night at Kim Il Sung Square in central Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), to mark the 90th founding anniversary of the Korean People's Army (KPA), the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Tuesday.
* Law-enforcement authorities from China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand joined forces on Tuesday to start the 116th Mekong River joint patrol.
* The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) kicked off its first international conference on nuclear law in Vienne on Monday.
* An official from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday urged Sri Lanka to tighten its monetary policy, raise taxes and adopt flexible exchange rates to overcome its debt crisis.
* US State Department officials held their first high-level talks with the Brazilian government since 2019 on Monday, reinforcing ties between the Western Hemisphere's two largest democracies despite their differences over the Ukraine war.
* Moldovan President Maia Sandu is convening a meeting of the country's Supreme Security Council on Tuesday over incidents that took place in the breakaway Transdniestria region, the president's press office said in a statement.
* Global airline capacity has surged to its highest level in 2022 this week because of a rebound in Chinese domestic demand despite extended lockdowns in Asia's biggest aviation market, travel data firm OAG said on Tuesday.
* With the global economy under severe stress, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) need an urgent rescue, said UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed on Monday.
* Brazil's government has renewed until the end of 2023 a program in which it guarantees part of credit operations for small and medium-sized companies, aiming to boost the economy by recycling efforts to fight the pandemic.
* The global capacity of power plants fired by coal, the fossil fuel that emits the most carbon dioxide when burned, rose nearly 1% last year as the world recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a research report by a US environmental group.
* The number of newly founded startups in Germany in 2021 increased by 11 percent year-on-year to 3,348, according to an annual report published on Monday by analytics firm Startupdetector.
* Mexico detained almost 6,000 foreign migrants in a four-day span, the country's National Migration Institute (INM) said on Monday.
* The death toll from African migrant boats that sank off Tunisia at the weekend rose to 20 people on Monday, a judicial official said, the latest migrant boat disaster off Tunisia.
