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Excessive screen time has been blamed for an increase in cases of tic disorder seen at a HCMC children’s hospital. Last week, Van’s eight-year-old son began acting strangely. She observed him constantly jerking his eyes, nodding and sometimes mumbling to himself. She initially thought that they were the fleeting actions …

The death toll from a 5.6-magnitude earthquake in Indonesia on Monday has risen to 162 with hundreds injured and over 13,000 displaced, local media Kompas.com and Detik.com reported, citing West Java governor Ridwan Kamil. The epicenter of the 5.6 magnitude quake was near the town of Cianjur in mountainous West …

153 people partying in Hai Phong’s biggest dance club tested positive for drugs after a midnight raid by the police on Sunday. Police in the northern port city said they found 386 customers and employees at the Dom Club in Ngo Quyen District. Of these, test results made available Monday …

A 5.6-magnitude earthquake killed more than 50 people and injured hundreds in Indonesia’s West Java province on Monday, with rescuers trying to reach survivors trapped under the rubble amid a series of aftershocks as night fell. West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil confirmed 56 deaths from the quake, whose epicentre was …

Students in schools across several Beijing districts buckled down for online classes on Monday after officials called for residents in some of its hardest-hit areas to stay home, as Covid cases in China’s capital and nationally ticked higher. China is fighting numerous Covid-19 flare ups, from Zhengzhou in central Henan …

A total 100 families were evacuated as a bomb carrying 80 kilograms of explosives from the Vietnam War was destroyed in the central Quang Tri Province last weekend. Weighing 227 kilograms, the Mark 82 bomb (MK82) was produced by the U.S. to use during the war (1955-1975). It was found …

A 7-year-old boy in Ho Chi Minh City has been hospitalized after he mistakenly drank his uncle’s cup of water with methadone, a medication used for treating drug addiction. The boy was taken to HCMC’s Children Hospital No.1 last Saturday when he fell unconscious and stopped breathing after mistakenly drinking …

Up to 20 people have been killed after a 5.6-magnitude earthquake rattled Indonesia’s West Java province on Monday, a local official said. Herman Suherman, a government official from Cianjur, the town in West Java where the epicentre of the quake was located, told news channel MetroTV that up to 20 …

PM Pham Minh Chinh has called for speeding up work on three expressways and sections of two others in the central and Central Highlands regions to improve connectivity. Speaking at a conference on socioeconomic development in the region in the resort town of Da Lat on Sunday, he said work …

Growing up in a Chinese village, Julian Zhu only saw his father a few times a year when he returned for holidays from his exhausting job in a textile mill in southern Guangdong province. For his father’s generation, factory work was a lifeline out of rural poverty. For Zhu, and …