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Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index plunges by over 43 points Monday, a six-week low, as panic selling sent nearly 90 percent of tickers on the main bourse falling. The index started to drop in the afternoon and by around 2:47 p.m. it hit the bottom at 1,452.84 points. 446 tickers, or 87 …

Mainland China’s birth rate dropped to a record low of 7.52 per 1,000 people in 2021, National Bureau of Statistics data showed on Monday, accelerating a downward trend that led Beijing last year to begin allowing couples to have up to three children. China scrapped its decades-old one-child policy in …

The world’s 10 wealthiest men doubled their fortunes during the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic as poverty and inequality soared, a report said on Monday. Oxfam said the men’s wealth jumped from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion, at an average rate of $1.3 billion per day, in a …