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When billionaire singer Rihanna posed for an ad campaign by luxury shoemaker Manolo Blahnik, she also made a star out of the little-known Vietnamese designer who made the oversized white shirt she posed in. For more than two decades, Nguyen Cong Tri has been crafting chic structured eveningwear made of …

U.S. health authorities are considering reducing the 10-day recommended quarantine period for Americans who test positive for Covid-19 as the Omicron variant tears across the country, White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci said on Tuesday. A spike in Covid-19 cases is alarming public health officials, who fear an explosion of …

U.S. health authorities are considering reducing the 10-day recommended quarantine period for Americans who test positive for Covid-19 as the Omicron variant tears across the country, White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci said on Tuesday. A spike in Covid-19 cases is alarming public health officials, who fear an explosion of …

A mattress brand has been fined VND137 million ($6,000) for running an “inappropriate” ad campaign featuring young, shirtless men on the Cat Linh-Ha Dong metro line. The Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports said Tuesday that it issued a decision to fine the owner of the Vua Nem brand for …

Foreigners living in Vietnam, though glad that authorities and most people act carefully, remain very watchful against Covid-19 and admittedly a bit worried. As the Christmas and New Year holidays approach, Vietnam has been seeing a rapid increase in the number of cases. Laura Dawes Vu, a Canadian living in …

Thailand reimposed mandatory coronavirus quarantine measures for foreign tourists on Tuesday, nixing a quarantine-free travel scheme as the kingdom seeks to stifle the spread of the Omicron variant. The pandemic has clobbered the country’s tourism-dominated economy, which last year experienced its worst performance since the 1997 Asian financial crisis. In …

Vietnam will issue its own digital Covid-19 vaccine passport that will carry personal details and vaccination information. A Health Ministry document said the vaccine passport would include the holder’s name, date of birth, nationality, disease against which the vaccination has been done, number of vaccine shots, vaccination dates, vaccine type, …

Vietnam confirmed another local Covid-19 cases on Tuesday in 62 cities and provinces, and Hanoi continued to lead the tally, the Health Ministry data showed. Hanoi accounted for the most cases, 1,704, followed by the Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau with 1,590 cases and HCMC’s neighboring province of Tay …

The number of tickets sold at Ho Chi Minh City’s biggest bus stations for Lunar New Year is expected to fall due to Covid-19. Officials at Mien Dong (southeastern region) and Mien Tay (southwestern region) bus stations predict ticket sales for the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday, called Tet in …

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc arrived in Phnom Penh on Tuesday for a two-day official visit to Cambodia at the invitation of King Norodom Sihamoni. The president’s trip marks the first by a Vietnamese head of state to Cambodia since the 13th Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam in January. …