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Workers losing their jobs between October last year and March 2023 will receive a stipend of VND1-3 million (US$42.66-128) from the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor. The confederation said Monday tens of thousands of workers have been laid off or furloughed across Vietnam’s manufacturing hubs due to a shortage of …

U.S. and European airlines will benefit from pent-up demand for travel to China after its recent border reopening, but route approvals, fresh Covid-19 testing rules and not enough large aircraft remain barriers to rising sales, analysts and industry officials say. Travel is returning to China, the world’s largest outbound tourism …

China’s population fell last year for the first time since 1961, a historic turn that is expected to mark the start of a long period of decline in its citizen numbers and see India become the world’s most populous nation in 2023. The country had 1.41175 billion people at the …

Six people, including a 17-year-old mother and a six-month old baby, were killed in a shooting at a home in Goshen, California, on Monday, authorities said, describing the attack as targeted and calling it a “horrific massacre.” Six victims were shot dead at the 6800 Block of Harvest Road, Tulare …

Seventeen days after a 10-year-old boy fell into a 35-meter-deep concrete pillar in southern Vietnam, where he was trapped and died, rescue workers have managed to pull the pillar up by just 12m. Rescuers are pulling the concrete pillar up section by section. Nam and three other children who are …

An Indonesian court on Monday began a trial of a handful of police officers and soccer match organizers on charges of criminal negligence for their role in one of the world’s deadliest soccer stadium stampedes in Java last October. The disaster, in which 135 people died, occurred after a match …

Passengers laden with luggage flocked to rail stations and airports in China’s megacities on Monday, heading to their hometowns for Lunar New Year holidays that health experts fear could intensify a raging Covid-19 outbreak in areas less-equipped to handle it. After three years of strict anti-virus controls, China abruptly abandoned …

An Indonesian court on Monday began a trial of a handful of police officers and soccer match organisers on charges of criminal negligence for their role in one of the world’s deadliest soccer stadium stampedes in Java last October. The disaster, in which 135 people died, occurred after a match …

Temperatures in the north of Vietnam droped as low as 0 degree Celsius on Monday morning, with Hanoi recording temperatures of 13 degrees. Nine northern Vietnam localities saw temperatures dropping below 10 degrees, with the peaks of Mau Son Mountain in Lang Son dropping to 0 degrees, while other areas …

Construction of a Japanese-funded pedestrian walkway over Nguyen Tat Thanh Street in Da Nang City began Sunday. The overpass, to cost VND42 billion (US$1.78 million), is being built by Japanese company Mikazuki. Built in Japanese style with curve sections made of wood to symbolize sea waves, it will be 140m …