* Foreign direct investment (FDI) net inflows into the Philippines reached 727 million USD in March, 9.8 percent lower than the amount posted in March 2021, the Philippine central bank said on Monday.
* The World Bank on Monday maintained Malaysia's economic growth forecast this year at 5.5 percent. The growth is mainly driven by a robust rebound in consumption demand, World Bank said in a report.
* Myanmar has fully vaccinated more than 27.2 million people against COVID-19 as of Saturday, according to the Ministry of Health on Sunday.
* Security concerns raised by Turkey in its opposition to Finnish and Swedish NATO membership applications are legitimate, the Western military alliance's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in Finland.
* The Republic of Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol ordered his top aides on Monday to come up with measures to help ease living costs amid red-hot inflation, local media News1 reported, citing an unnamed official at the presidential office.
* New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has made changes to her Cabinet line-up by replacing ministers for police, immigration and justice.
* The Russian navy will receive 46 warships and support vessels in 2022, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Nikolay Yevmenov said Sunday.
* UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian on Saturday discussed peace in Yemen and the Iran nuclear deal in a phone call.
* Mongolia will build a "green wall" along its borders by planting at least 16 million trees by 2030 to combat desertification, according to the presidential office of Mongolia.
* Norwegian oil firms and employees have agreed in principle a new wage deal, avoiding for now a strike at nine fields that could have hit the country's petroleum output, employers and unions said on Sunday.
* Nigerian police said on Monday that 40 people were abducted by gunmen suspected to be bandits on a road in the northwest state of Zamfara on Saturday.
* A senior Palestine official said on Sunday that the unilateral Israeli actions in the Palestinian territories undermine the chances for peace and the two-state solution.
* Oman and Tanzania have set up a mutual investment fund that aims to invest in several sectors, including agriculture, fishing and mining, the state-owned Oman News Agency cited the sultanate's foreign minister Badr al-Busaidi as saying on Monday.
* China’s Beijing will suspend all offline sports events starting from June 13 citing high transmission risks of a recent COVID-19 outbreak linked to a bar in the city, Beijing Municipal Bureau of Sports said in a statement on Monday.
* US Food and Drug Administration staff reviewers on Sunday said Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccines were effective and safe for use in children aged 6 months to 4 years.
* The United States late Friday rescinded a 17-month-old requirement that people arriving in the country by air test negative for COVID-19, a move that follows intense lobbying by airlines and the travel industry.
* Canada is suspending random COVID-19 testing at all its airports for the rest of June to ease the long wait times that travellers have encountered in recent weeks, a government statement said on Friday.
* COVID-19 vaccine maker BioNTech said construction of an mRNA vaccine factory to enable African nations to jump-start their own manufacturing network would start on June 23 in Rwanda.
* An early heat wave is expected to hit France this week, the state forecaster Meteo France said on Sunday, with temperatures reaching up to 38 Celsius (100 Fahrenheit) in the south.
* The Venezuelan government said on Sunday it had recorded its first case of monkeypox in a man who entered the country though its principal airport near Caracas after arriving from Madrid.
