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The Ministry of Health confirmed 197,467 new Covid-19 cases Friday, including over 34,000 cases detected on previous days but yet to be added to the national database. The three localities with the highest numbers of new cases are Bac Giang with 37,025, Hanoi with 23,578 and Nghe An with 9,968. …

Three people in the northern province of Dien Bien were detained Thursday after electrocuting a tiger to produce bone glue. Luong Van Anh, 45, Ngo Sy Thanh, 46, and Ngo Sy Tien, 55, were detained by police after a raid on Anh’s home. The group electrocuted a 220-kilogram tiger before …

Lam Dong Province has suggested spending VND4.3 trillion ($187 million) to double Lien Khuong airport’s capacity. In a recent letter sent to the government, the administration of Lam Dong Province stated Lien Khuong Airport in Duc Trong District, about 28 kilometers south of Da Lat resort town, should be upgraded …

British finance minister Rishi Sunak must decide next week whether to spend billions of pounds more to ease the growing cost-of-living squeeze for households and businesses as inflation soars higher. Sunak, who is due to deliver a budget update on Wednesday, wants to steer the public finances of the world’s …

Oil prices extended their gains on Friday after slim progress in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine raised the spectre of tighter sanctions and a prolonged disruption to oil supply. Despite battleground setbacks and punitive sanctions by the West, Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown little sign of relenting. A …

Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on Thursday said the country is sending 156,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines to Vietnam without revealing the arrival date. Szijjarto announced the new delivery on social media, as reported by Hungarian site 24.hu. “Friends do not forget each other in trouble, so we are grateful …

Vietnam would shift its Covid-19 strategy from minimizing infections to minimizing hospitalization and death risks, the government said Thursday. According to a Covid-19 prevention program issued by the government, Vietnam would fight the coronavirus based on a risk management approach. Units however still need to be ready for any future …

Oil slicks have been found along a three-kilometer stretch of beach in Nha Trang in central Vietnam in the last two days. The Nha Trang Urban Environment JSC has dispatched dozens of workers to Tran Phu Beach to collect them. On Thursday alone they filled up 100 bags of 50kg …

The central Chinese city of Wuhan has vowed to create a 100 billion yuan ($15.7 billion) space industry by 2025 and become China’s “valley of satellites”. Wuhan is offering firms up to 50 million yuan ($7.88 million) in financial incentives each in projects related to the manufacturing of satellites, rockets …

Thirty-five generic drug manufacturers including a Vietnamese firm will make a more affordable version of Pfizer’s anti-Covid pill for the world’s poorer nations, in licensing deals announced Thursday. The global Medicines Patent Pool (MPP), a U.N.-backed organization, signed agreements with three dozen manufacturers to produce the oral Covid-19 treatment nirmatrelvir …