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Hanoi police are questioning a man after his girlfriend’s three-year-old daughter was found with nine nails embedded in her skull. The criminal division began investigating Nguyen Trung Huyen, 30, after the case was handed over to it by the Thach That District police, and they have also summoned the mother …

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a bid by former president Donald Trump to block the release to a congressional committee of documents related to the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Citing executive privilege, Trump had sought to prevent the records held by the National Archives from being …

China’s capital Beijing ramped up efforts to curb Covid-19 infections, ordering checks among cold-chain firms and urging residents to cut unnecessary gatherings, as the city reported an uptick in local cases weeks before the Winter Olympics. Beijing had three domestically transmitted infections with confirmed symptoms on Wednesday, including one previously …

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday that restrictions will be tightened across the country if there is a community transmission of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus but she ruled out lockdowns. New Zealand’s tight controls and geographic advantage has helped it remain free of the Omicron …

Vietnam will spend VND75 trillion ($3.3 billion) on a five year (2021-2025) poverty reduction program that has been approved by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh. The national program proposed by the social affairs ministry will focus on reducing poverty, preventing people from falling into poverty and helping poor people gain …

The Vietnamese head of a human trafficking gang was sentenced to 15 years in jail by a Belgian court on Wednesday for the manslaughter of 39 compatriots who suffocated in an airtight shipping container smuggled into Britain in 2019. The court in Bruges also ordered Vo Van Hong, 45, to …

With most HCMC schools not allowed to accommodate students after their morning classes, parents are using their lunch break and other ruses to take them home. When on-site classed began for his 8th grader daughter, Duc Huy, a technician for an IT firm in District 1, had to shift to …

Hanoi will not organize its usual Lunar New Year’s Eve firework display at the Thong Nhat Park over Covid-19 concerns, the municipal People’s Committee announced Wednesday. Chu Ngoc Anh, chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee, said the capital had sought the government’s opinion on the firework shows and the latter …

The Health Ministry announced 15,936 new domestic Covid-19 patients Wednesday in 61 cities and provinces, including three first Omicron cases in the community. Most of the new cases were detected in Hanoi at 2,909. It was followed by two central localities: Da Nang with 892 cases and Khanh Hoa with …

Thousands of people in Hong Kong volunteered on Wednesday to adopt unwanted hamsters after a mass cull order from the government over Covid-19 fears raised alarm that panicky owners would abandon their pets. Authorities ordered on Tuesday 2,000 hamsters from dozens of pet shops and storage facilities to be culled …