* China stabilized the economy, steadily enhanced development quality, and maintained overall social stability in 2022, securing new and hard-won achievements in development, according to a government work report submitted Sunday to the national legislature for deliberation.
* The central banks of the Republic of Korea and Indonesia on Monday agreed to renew their bilateral currency swap deal for three more years, according to the Bank of Korea (BOK).
*Japan and the Republic of Korea have started making arrangements for President Yoon Suk Yeol to visit Japan for a summit meeting with Prime Minister Kishida Fumio, Kyodo News reported on Monday.
* The Republic of Korea's industry ministry said Monday that it decided to suspend its trade dispute with Japan at the World Trade Organization (WTO) while consultations go on about Tokyo's export curbs on Seoul.
* The Kremlin said on Monday it was for all shareholders to decide whether Nord Stream gas pipelines damaged in blasts last year should be mothballed.
* EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Sunday she is determined to counter challenges from US subsidies for green technologies and to speed a currently blocked law on phasing out combustion engines from 2035.
* The UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon on Sunday urged the country and Israel to maintain calm following an incident on the demarcation Blue Line, the National News Agency reported.
* Bolivian President Luis Arce and his Nicaraguan counterpart, Daniel Ortega, arrived in Venezuela on Sunday to take part in ceremonies marking the 10th anniversary of the death of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
* The Syrian Foreign Ministry on Sunday condemned an "illegitimate" visit of a top US general to a US base in northeastern Syria. In a statement, the ministry slammed the US Army general Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for making an unannounced visit to a base to meet US troops in northeastern Syria.
* King Abdullah II of Jordan on Sunday underlined the need to de-escalate and restore calm in the Palestinian territories, as well as cease any unilateral measures that undermine stability and peace prospects.
* Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi met with visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani in Cairo on Sunday to discuss issues of mutual interest.
* The conflict in Ukraine and a cost-of-living crisis are not spoiling German consumers' appetite for a holiday, the DRV industry body said on Monday, forecasting a return in 2023 to the record sales seen before the COVID-19 pandemic.
* Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Monday that his country would continue to support developing countries to achieve sustainable development goals, according to local media reports.
* Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday said a compromise over the government's plans to overhaul the judicial system, which has led to mass protests, is "closer than ever", sending financial markets sharply higher.
* The first contingent of Burundian soldiers arrived Sunday in Goma, the capital of North Kivu province in northeast Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), under the mandate of the regional forces of the East African Community (EAC).
* Iran plans to launch two homegrown satellites into space in cooperation with Russia in December 2023, Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) reported Sunday.
* Sri Lanka's Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) provided service to over 11,000 tourists in February, the Airport and Aviation Services of Sri Lanka (AASL) announced on Monday.
* Some 40 fishermen were evacuated from a drifting ice floe and work continued to rescue more in difficult weather conditions on the Sakhalin island, Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations said on Monday.
* Landslides occurred in Indonesia's western province of Riau Islands on Monday, leaving at least 10 dead and several others missing, a rescue official said in a statement.
* At least 22 people were killed and dozens of others injured in a head-on collision Monday between a passenger bus and a truck in Ghana, local authorities confirmed.
* Eleven people were killed and 15 others injured in traffic accidents on Myanmar's Yangon-Mandalay highway in February this year, the Nay Pyi Taw Expressway Traffic Police Force said on Monday.
* Parts of Australia's east including Sydney recorded their hottest day in more than two years on Monday with temperatures hitting more than 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), raising the risk of bushfires.
