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Five Republican senators led by Marco Rubio on Friday asked President Joe Biden’s administration to ban travel between the United States and China after a spike in Chinese respiratory illness cases. “We should immediately restrict travel between the United States and (China) until we know more about the dangers posed …

Taiwanese footwear maker Pouyuen, a contractor for major brands like Adidas, Nike and Reebook, has no plan to lay off workers in 2024, according to the company’s union. At a union discussion on Friday, Cu Phat Nghiep, chairman of the Pouyuen union, said the firm needs to hire more than …

All vehicles will be prohibited from moving on certain streets in downtown HCMC for 18 days to make room for firefighting and rescue drills at Ben Thanh underground station of the first metro line. The no-vehicle area would include Tran Hung Dao from Ky Con to Ham Nghi streets, a …

An unmanned Sierra Leonean vessel carrying liquid, weighing almost 14,000 tons, was found stranded at Cu Lao Cham Island off central Quang Nam Province on Friday. The Cu Lao Cham border guard station in Hoi An City said the vessel is named King Rich, spanning 132 m in length and …

Evacuations were under way in the Philippines after a quake of at least magnitude 7.5 struck the southern region of Mindanao on Saturday night, triggering tsunami warnings in the country and in Japan, though a U.S. agency said the risk of large waves had passed. The U.S. Tsunami Warning System, …

A Ugandan woman aged 70 has given birth to twins, her doctor said Thursday, in what the mother hailed as a miracle. Safina Namukwaya described her joy at the arrival of the twins who were born on Wednesday at a medical facility in the capital Kampala, where she had received …

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Saturday called for strengthened international solidarity and action to combat climate change for humanity’s prosperous development. At the World Climate Action Summit during the 28th UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, UAE, Chinh also expressed his concern over the increasingly serious impacts …

South Korea confirmed Saturday its first military spy satellite had reached orbit after a successful SpaceX rocket launch and that communication was established with ground control. Seoul’s reconnaissance satellite, carried by one of Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets, intensifies a space race on the Korean peninsula after the North …

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has vowed to stop building new coal-fired power plants that lack measures to cut carbon emissions. The announcement was made at the UN’s COP 28 climate summit in Dubai, as Japan, heavily reliant on imported coal and other fossil fuels, aims to become carbon-neutral by …

ChatGPT maker OpenAI has delayed the launch of its custom GPT store until early 2024, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters on Friday. ChatGPT logo is seen in this illustration taken, Feb. 3, 2023. Photo by Reuters During its first developer conference in November, OpenAI introduced the custom …