World

Dozens of protestors gathered Wednesday evening in Grand Rapids, Michigan after police released videos related to the fatal shooting of a young Black man by a white police officer. One of four videos from the April 4 incident shows the officer lying on the back of 26-year-old Patrick Lyoya as …

Hanoi will have another pedestrian street around the Ngoc Khanh Lake in the downtown Ba Dinh District, authorities announced Wednesday. The Ba Dinh District People’s Committee said a pedestrian street project around Ngoc Khanh Lake would span around 12 ha, including 36,000 sq.m of the lake and 3,800 sq.m of …

HCMC’s first metro line has been a long time coming, and it is yet to arrive, a full decade after work began on the project. The primary factor in this prolonged delay has been the failure of stakeholders to anticipate problems, identify solutions and implement them in a timely manner. …

The Health Ministry announced 24,623 new domestic Covid-19 patients Wednesday in 63 cities and provinces. Most of the new cases were detected in Hanoi at 1,727. It was followed by Vinh Phuc Province with 1,147 cases and Yen Bai Province with 972 cases. The average number of new cases in …

A U.S. court has sentenced a substitute teacher to 11 years in prison for the sexual exploitation of minors in Ho Chi Minh City. The sentence was handed out to Paul Bodner on March 31 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on three counts of …

A reporter had his bag snatched by a man driving past on a motorbike in southern Dong Nai Province on Wednesday morning. While sitting in front of an apartment building in Quang Vinh Ward of Bien Hoa Town, waiting to be picked up for work, the reporter who works for …

Around 30 percent of parents remain hesitant to let their children aged 5-11 be vaccinated against Covid-19, even as the vaccination campaign for them is slated to begin soon. At a Wednesday press meeting, Phan Trong Lan, head of the General Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health, …

The Chinese commercial capital of Shanghai warned on Wednesday that anyone who violates Covid-19 lockdown rules will be dealt with strictly, while also rallying citizens to defend their city as its tally of new cases rebounded to more than 25,000. The city police department spelled out the restrictions that most …

Prices for wind and solar power in major global markets have climbed nearly 30 percent in a year as developers have struggled with chaotic supply chains and surging costs for everything from shipping to parts to labor, according to a report published on Wednesday. Contract prices for renewables jumped 28.5 …

Around 30 percent of parents are still hesitant to let their children aged 5-11 be vaccinated against Covid-19, even as the vaccination campaign for them is slated to begin soon. At a Wednesday press meeting, Phan Trong Lan, head of the General Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of …