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Hong Kong residents braced for a city-wide lockdown, emptying supermarkets and pharmacies, even as leader Carrie Lam called for calm on Tuesday and appealed for the public not to worry over a compulsory mass Covid-19 testing plan. The Chinese-ruled territory reported 32,597 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday and a record …

  Students at an elementary school in HCM City’s Bình Thạnh District wash their hands before entering in February. The city has mandated that if more than half the students in a class contract COVID or were in contact with a patient, the class has to switch to online learning. – Photo …

The Vietnam Academy of Forest Sciences has lost more than 2,000 hectares of forest land in the Central Highlands region over a period of 18 years. Inspectors from the Department of Natural Resources and Environment in Dak Nong Province have blamed the loss on “irresponsible and loose management.” In 2003, …