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The year is 2020. An Animals Asia bear rescue team is just 60 km from Pleiku after traveling the length of the country from the NGO’s headquarters in Tam Dao. They have made the long journey to save an animal known as Cotton Blossom, who, like many bears held in …

A company director in Ho Chi Minh City was arrested Monday for swindling $1.1 million through signing contracts to sell non-existent medical gloves. Do Van Dung, general director of Southeast Asia Technical Investment JSC, was arrested by HCMC police to be investigated for “obtaining property by fraud.” In July 2020, …

HCMC schools have increased staff and medical supplies as around 680,000 students of grades 7, 8, 10, and 11 prepare to resume in-person classes after New Year holiday. After 9th and 12th grade students, the afore mentioned grades will head back to the classroom Tuesday after eight months of remote …

Vietnam on Monday recorded 15,916 local Covid-19 cases, plus four imported cases with the Omicron variant. The four new Omicron cases were recorded in Hai Duong and Hai Phong in northern Vietnam and the north central province of Thanh Hoa. Vietnam has recorded 24 Covid-19 cases with the Omicron variant …

India extended Covid vaccinations to teens aged 15-18 on Monday, after officials tightened restrictions in big cities to avoid a repeat of last year’s devastating outbreak. More than 200,000 people around India died in a huge spring Covid wave that overwhelmed hospitals and crematoriums. Health workers have since administered more …

Police in Ho Chi Minh City are considering a possible murder charge over the death of an eight-year-old girl at the abusive hands of her father’s lover. A police representative in HCMC on Jan. 1 said officers in Binh Thanh District had handed the case over to city authorities due …

Singapore’s economy grew 7.2 percent last year, rebounding from its worst recession since independence sparked by the coronavirus pandemic, government data showed Monday. The city-state plunged into its worst economic performance in 2020 as businesses and international borders shut down, choking its trade and tourism economic lifeline. Authorities initially imposed …

Thong Nhat Park would be the sole location in Hanoi to view fireworks on Feb. 1. Fireworks would be lit for 15 minutes from midnight of the first day of the 2022 Lunar New Year. The budget would be derived from private sources. It would be the second year in …

A 23-year-old woman in the northern Lao Cai Province died last Thursday after receiving her second Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine shot. The provincial health department said “the patient died from grade 4 anaphylactic reaction after Covid-19 vaccination due to inherent characteristics of vaccines”; that her death was not related to the …

Vietnam might have a more difficult balancing act in the new year since the superpower rivalry between the U.S. and China is expected to become more intense, experts warn. “The U.S. – China strategic competition has intensified recently, but it is still in the beginning phase, and therefore this trend …