Welcome to morning news. It's April 28 (Wednesday), 2021. 18°C~24°C, rainy in Guangzhou.

China

1. The Hong Kong Food and Health Bureau on Tuesday announced to further relax social-distancing rules, allowing bars, nightclubs and karaoke lounges to reopen from April 29 to May 12. Some venues will be able to stay open till 2 a.m. for those who have been vaccinated and presented their health status through a government mobile phone application.

2. Beijing's Daxing International Airport on Tuesday launched its first express lines between the capital and Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Flights will be operated by China Southern Airlines.

3. Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport on Tuesday kicked off an exhibition featuring tea culture in the Lingnan region. Another exhibition is scheduled on Thursday to showcase the region's intangible cultural heritage like paper cutting, straw plaiting and Cantonese embroidery.

4. An exhibition themed on crab, shrimp and lobster opened Tuesday at Guangdong Museum in Guangzhou and will last till August 22. Some 370 exhibits, including the crustacean's fossils, specimens and cultural relics, are presented for visitors to explore their origins and evolution.

5. Beijing's education authority on Tuesday suggested that schools and educational institutions in the city suspend all outdoor activities as a blue alert for sandstorms is in place.

6. China on Tuesday launched the English and Japanese versions of the digital museum of the Diaoyu Islands at www.diaoyudao.org.cn.

7. The Chinese mainland recorded 12 confirmed COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, all from overseas. Guangdong province reported three new infections from abroad over the past 24 hours, two in Guangzhou and one in Foshan.

World

1. US President Joe Biden on Monday promised to support India hit hard by COVID-19 in a phone call with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the White House said.

2. US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are likely to hold a summit in June despite current tensions between the two countries, according to a Kremlin senior official.

3. Foreigners are banned from making Nepal a transit point for flying to a third country from Tuesday, according to the Nepali Department of Immigration. The government has decided to put the capital Kathmandu under a 15-day lockdown starting Thursday.

4. Malaysia temporarily bans all flights to and from India from Wednesday given the growing wave of COVID-19 cases in India.

5. Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service said on Tuesday it had fined U.S. tech giant Apple more than US$ 12 million for allegedly abusing its dominant position on the market.

6. The European Commission on Tuesday adopted a strategy aimed at encouraging rejected immigrants to voluntarily return to their country of origin and push reintegration, to help address the issue of illegal migration that has plagued the European continent for years.

Editor: Pauline Tai

Source: China Daily, Xinhua, CGTN, Guangzhou Daily, Nddaily