* Cambodia's famed Angkor Archaeological Park attracted 33,205 foreign visitors in the first four months of this year, up by 633 percent year-on-year, the state-owned Angkor Enterprise said on Monday.
* The recently elected Hungarian parliament held its first session in Budapest on Monday, electing its key officials. Laszlo Kover, a founding member of the governing Fidesz party, was re-elected Speaker of the parliament. He was first elected to the position in 2010 and re-elected in 2014 and 2018.
* Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will leave early on Monday for a tour to three European nations, namely Germany, Denmark and France, announced Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra on Sunday. This will be Modi's first overseas visit this year.
* The Russia-Ukraine conflict and the sanctions imposed in response were causing new disruptions in global supply chains which were already under "great pressure" from the COVID-19 pandemic, Germany's state-owned promotional bank KfW said on Monday.
* The Russian military will not artificially adjust its actions during the special operation in Ukraine to any date, including Victory Day, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Sunday.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that an evacuation is underway inside the Azovstal plant in the besieged city of Mariupol.
* Energy ministers from European Union countries hold emergency talks on Monday, as the bloc strives for a united response to Moscow's demand that European buyers pay for Russian gas in roubles or face their supply being cut off.
* Israel's government on Monday ordered communications firms to step up their cyber security efforts in the wake of a rise in attempted hacking attacks.
* The Republic of Korea's online shopping logged a double-digit growth in the first quarter of this year due to solid demand for food delivery services, statistical office data showed Monday.
* Sri Lanka will amend its electricity law to remove impediments to procurement, Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said on Monday.
* Mongolia has launched nationwide health checkups starting Sunday to detect serious diseases in the early, such as cancers and cardiovascular diseases, and promote a healthy lifestyle, said the country's health ministry on Monday.
* Mainland China reported 7,822 new COVID-19 cases on May 1, including 865 symptomatic cases and 6,957 asymptomatic infections, the National Health Commission said on Monday. That was down from 8,329 new cases a day earlier, of which 920 were symptomatic and 7,409 were asymptomatic.
* India's COVID-19 tally rose to 43,082,345 on Monday as 3,157 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the South Asian country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data. This is the fifth day of daily new cases surpassing the 3,000-mark in number in the country.
* Portugal has received a mission from the World Health Organization (WHO) to analyze the country's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and implement the first pilot project of the Universal Health and Preparedness Review (UHPR) in Europe starting from Monday.
