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A Hong Kong government rule that all school students and staff take daily Covid-19 tests will add massively to the city’s plastic waste problem. The mandatory rapid antigen tests (RAT), and their plastic accessories are expected to worsen marine and land pollution in the financial hub of 7.4 million people …

The US solar industry is warning of big slowdown in project installations as global supply chain disruptions and threat of new tariffs on panel imports from Southeast Asia hit home. U.S. power company Southern Co on Thursday said nearly a gigawatt of its planned solar energy projects would be delayed …

The U.S. has handed over to the Vietnamese Coast Guard a fourth center for training personnel and maintaining ships and a drone. Robert Pope, director of the cooperative threat reduction program run by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), a combat support agency at the U.S. Department of Defense for …

When 23-year-old Norwegian Anastasia Johansen and her boyfriend were planning their first vacation in two years, they considered going to Thailand but chose Vietnam instead, for its simpler entry rules. “The regulations to enter Thailand … were complicated to me and we had to pay for the hefty PCR test,” …

Mr Lee’s diner, a cheap-and-cheerful fried chicken shop near central Seoul, has held firm against raising prices for a decade and a half. But now, Mr Lee says, Indonesia’s cooking oil export ban and its costly squeeze on prices have been the last straw: he expects to follow larger chains …

Foreigners can now enter and leave Vietnam through the northern Quang Ninh’s Van Don Airport using e-visas. Electronic visas simplify the immigration process at airports and save time for everyone involved. The e-visa codes of each visitor are integrated with border security systems. Starting in May 2020 eight other airports …

Twitter reported revenue that fell short of expectations and were depressed by the Ukraine situation, laying out the challenges billionaire Elon Musk will face if he takes over the company. The company also reported 12 million new users in the quarter, its highest rise in users since the height of …

The Vietnamese government is thinking of using two airports in the provinces of Dong Nai and Ninh Thuan for both military and civilian purposes. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has formed a team comprising several ministries and local authorities led by Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh to look into …

It is not appropriate for Vietnam to declare the Covid-19 pandemic over in the country despite falling numbers of infections and deaths, experts say. “The number of infections is falling, but this is not enough to declare the pandemic finished,” Tran Dac Phu, senior advisor of the Public Health Emergency …

The U.K. magazine Times Higher Education (THE) has listed seven schools in Vietnam among those having the most impacts in the world in 2022. The fourth edition of THE’s Impact Rankings, which include 1,406 universities from 106 countries and territories, marks the highest number of Vietnamese schools breaking into the …