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Japan’s consumer inflation rate accelerated to an eight-year high of 3% in September, challenging the central bank’s resolve to retain its ultra-easy policy as the yen slumped to 32-year lows. The inflation data highlights the dilemma the Bank of Japan faces as it tries to underpin a weak economy by …

Walmart Inc has agreed to pay $215 million to resolve claims its pharmacies fueled an epidemic of opioid addiction in Florida, the state’s attorney general announced on Thursday. As part of the deal, Walmart has also agreed to dispense 672,000 treatment kits with the anti-overdose drug naloxone to first responders …

The National Assembly passed a resolution to dismiss Nguyen Van The from the transport minister position Friday morning, upon his request. The dismissal went through with 92% of deputies voting yes. The, from the southern province of Dong Thap, holds a Ph.D in transportation engineering and science. The 55-year-old was …

Liz Truss quit Thursday after the shortest, most chaotic tenure of any British PM, after her economic program shattered the country’s reputation for financial stability and left many people poorer. The Conservative Party, which holds a big majority in parliament and need not call a nationwide election for another two …

U.S. firms developing a new generation of nuclear power plants to help cut carbon emissions have a big problem: only one company sells the fuel they need, and it’s Russian. That’s why the U.S. government is urgently looking to use some of its stockpile of weapons-grade uranium to help fuel …

A 5-year-old girl in the northern Phu Tho Province has become Vietnam’s first human case of A/H5 avian flu since 2014, the health ministry said Thursday. Tran Nhu Duong, deputy head of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, said a team has been sent to where the girl lives, …

Chairman of the Da Nang People’s Committee, Le Trung Chinh, has been reprimanded by the Communist Party’s Central Inspection Commission for management violations in the sale of medical products. The commission announced Thursday that it had also issued reprimands to: the Party Civil Affairs Committee of the Da Nang People’s …

The National Assembly’s Economic Committee has asked the government to look to other countries that have considered Covid-19 endemic, saying it would be a “good experience” for Vietnam. Vu Hong Thanh, head of the committee, told the assembly Thursday that Thailand’s policies towards diseases were a good experience for Vietnam …

The Consulate General of Vietnam in Cambodia’s Battambang Province has helped rescue 171 more Vietnamese citizens who were tricked into working for illegal businesses in Cambodia. The rescued citizens were working at the Cambodia-Thailand border, foreign ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said at a press meet Thursday. A total …

Liz Truss said on Thursday she was resigning as prime minister, brought down by her economic program that sent shockwaves through the markets and divided her Conservative Party just six weeks after she was appointed. A leadership election will be completed within the next week. Speaking outside the door of …