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North Korea is on the path to “finally defuse” a crisis stemming from its first acknowledged outbreak of Covid-19, the state news agency said on Monday, while Asian neighbors battle a fresh wave of infections driven by Omicron subvariants. The North says 99.98 percent of its 4.77 million fever patients …

An influenza A outbreak at a Hanoi industrial complex has seen more than 100 people infected in a fortnight, some so badly that they’ve had to be put on ventilators. Nguyen Nguyen Huyen, director of the medical diagnosis department at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases, confirmed that more than …

Two babysitters in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong were arrested Monday after a two-year-old girl under their care was hospitalized in critical condition. Vuong Ngoc Thao Vy, 24, and Huynh Thi Thanh Hang, 26, will be probed for “torture,” police said. Investigations found the girl’s mother had to …

Several large Chinese cities including Shanghai are rolling out new mass testing or extending lockdowns on millions of residents to counter new clusters of Covid-19 infections, with some measures being criticized on the internet. China has reported an average of around 390 local daily infections in the seven days ending …

Swedish fashion retailer H&M said on Monday it had decided to wind down operations in Russia having paused all sales there since March following Moscow’s attack of Ukraine. “After careful consideration, we see it as impossible given the current situation to continue our business in Russia,” H&M Group CEO Helena …

Swedish fashion retailer H&M said on Monday it had decided to wind down operations in Russia having paused all sales there since March following Moscow’s attack of Ukraine. “After careful consideration, we see it as impossible given the current situation to continue our business in Russia,” H&M Group CEO Helena …

The cut-throat competition to get into Vietnam’s high schools has revealed a dark side of urbanization that destroys the very notion of a level playing field. This situation, with students in major city centers having to fight tooth and nail to get into a reputed school while other institutions in …

A Vietnamese student in Japan was awarded a certificate of merit for saving the life of a man who fainted in a bathroom by summoning emergency assistance. On June 8 Nguyen Van Duc, 23, had heard cries for help from a woman in a parking lot in Iseda Town, and …

The Air and Air Defense Force plans to replace the old revetments in HCMC’s Tan Son Nhat airport and replace them with new ones. It is drafting a feasibility report for the plan after discussing it with the Ministry of Transport. The work will cost VND95 billion ($4 million) and …

On a hot Sunday afternoon in New York, the epicenter of the U.S. monkeypox outbreak, a long line of men aged 20 to 40 wait for a vaccine to protect themselves and their loved ones against the virus. With its rows of tables and chairs and stacks of medical equipment, …