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Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index rose 1.26% to 1,053.44 points Monday, highest in nearly three weeks. The index closed 13.13 points higher after losing 0.3 points on Friday. Trading on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) increased by 15.92% to VND10.78 trillion ($459.74 million). The VN-30 basket, comprising the 30 largest …

The Covid-19 pandemic, which killed millions of people and wreaked economic and social havoc, no longer constitutes a global health emergency, the WHO said Friday, warning that the threat remained. It is “with great hope that I declare Covid-19 over as a global health emergency”, World Health Organization chief Tedros …

A total of 37 tourists, mostly Russian nationals, were injured when a speedboat they were passengers on crashed into a concrete pillar in Thailand’s Phuket Town. The foreign tourists were returning to Phuket from the Phi Phi Islands on Wednesday evening when the driver of the speedboat suddenly rammed into …