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Expatriates are very happy that they could travel and meet during the Lunar New Year holiday. They are hoping, though, that caution accompanies the country’s reopening moves. “My family and I drove to Can Gio beach and met friends inside the city to enjoy Tet. I am very happy that …

Ha Tinh Province has shut down both online and offline classes in 37 schools starting Wednesday with hundreds of new Covid-19 cases being recorded every day. The schools, which include kindergartens, primary schools and secondary schools, are mostly located in districts with high and very high coronavirus risks, according to …

Vietnam on Thursday recorded 26,023 new local Covid-19 cases, bringing the inflection tally in the fourth wave to 2,401,114 cases so far. The three localities with the highest numbers of new cases are Hanoi with 2,887 cases, Nghe An with 1,749 cases and Hai Phong with 1,366 cases. 74 deaths …

Migrant workers who ignored exhortations to stay and returned to their hometowns last year when Covid-19 restrictions were lifted in HCMC are rushing back to find new jobs. On Feb. 6, the final day of the Lunar New Year festival, Duong Van Thanh, 37, took his daughter from their hometown …

Gold shops in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City opened earlier than normal Thursday to serve customers seeking new year fortune. Hanoi’s Tran Nhan Tong Street in Hai Ba Trung District, famed for its gold and jewelry shops, has seen sellers open their doors at 6:30 a.m. However, due to …

South Korea said on Thursday patients with mild coronavirus symptoms will have to treat themselves, aiming to free up medical resources for more serious cases, as new infections hit a fresh high because of the fast spreading Omicron variant. South Korea has largely been a Covid-19 mitigation success story, thanks …

Sweden scrapped almost all of its few pandemic restrictions on Wednesday and stopped most testing for Covid-19, even as the pressure on the healthcare systems remained high and some scientists begged for more patience in fighting the disease. Sweden’s government, which throughout the pandemic has opted against lockdowns in favour …

Over 500,000 students from grades 1 to 6 on the outskirts of Hanoi returned to school on Thursday, ending over nine months of online classes. Lien’s daughter woke up immediately when her mother called, even when she had to wake up an hour earlier than usual. After breakfast, she was …

A visitor to two tourism sites in the Central Highlands has accused them of abusing elephants they use to carry tourists around. In a post in a Facebook group on Monday, Nguyen Ngoc A. said she visited Jun village in Buon Ma Thuot Town, Dak Lak Province, on Feb. 3. …

Canada’s population reached nearly 37 million in 2021, growing almost twice as fast as the world’s other largest developed economies thanks to record immigration, the national statistics office said Wednesday. “One thing that has not changed from five years ago is that Canada remains the fastest growing country in the …