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Taiwan is eyeing an earlier end to its mandatory quarantine for all arrivals and has been making relevant preparations, Premier Su Tseng-chang said on Friday, as the government continues to ease controls put in place to contain the spread of Covid. Taiwan has kept its entry and quarantine rules in …

China’s southwestern municipality of Chongqing reported one case of the monkeypox virus infection on Friday in one individual who arrived in the country from abroad, marking the country’s first known monkeypox infection. The transmission risk of the case is low as the individual was put in quarantine upon arrival in …

King Charles and his siblings stood vigil by the coffin of their late mother Queen Elizabeth on Friday as tens of thousands of mourners queuing to pay their final respects during her lying in state were told they faced a wait of up to 24 hours. Charles, Princess Anne, Princes …

Two Covid antibody therapies are no longer recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), on the basis that Omicron and the variant’s latest offshoots have likely rendered them obsolete. The two therapies – which are designed to work by binding to the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 to neutralize the virus’ …

Owner of a karaoke parlor in the southern Binh Duong Province was arrested Friday night, held responsible for a fire that killed 32 people last week. Le Anh Xuan, 42, owner of the An Phu parlor, is facing charges of violating fire safety regulations. Police have been conducting searches at …

Vietnam returned the remains of an American soldier to U.S. representatives at a handover ceremony in Hanoi Friday. The remains handed over were found during the 148th search operation carried out from August to September 2022. They were examined by Vietnamese and American forensic experts in Hanoi, who concluded that …

Thousands of tons of clams in northern Vietnam’s Thai Binh Province have died after an oil-carrying vessel sunk. Over the past week, dozens of families in Thai Do Commune, Thai Thuy District, could not sit still as their clams, which were close to being harvested, kept dying. The smell of …

A massive fire engulfed a high-rise office building in downtown Changsha, capital of China’s southern province of Hunan, on Friday afternoon, state media reported. Dozens of storeys of the more than 200-metre tall (656-foot) China Telecom building “burned with great intensity”, sending thick smoke into the sky, state broadcaster CCTV …

Two passengers at HCMC’s Tan Son Nhat Airport were found trying to bring 10,518 U.S. dollar notes, each worth $100, to Thailand by painting them black. Ho Chi Minh City Customs on Friday said they found the notes, totaling “over $1 million,” inside two suitcases belonging to two Vietnamese, aged …

Macau’s government opened bids on Friday from seven companies, including a wildcard from Malaysian operator Genting, for licenses to operate casinos in the world’s biggest gambling hub. Macau’s top officials including the city’s Economy and Finance secretary Lei Wai Nong and Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheong attended the …