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A shortage of antidotes and antivenom in Vietnam has been attributed to their scarcity, low demand and “low profit” margin. For nearly a week, a boy has been in a coma at Bach Mai Hospital, Hanoi’s largest public facility, following a snake bite due to lack of an antidote. “Patients …

A man in southern Vietnam’s Dong Nai Province slashed off both of his wife’s arms because he suspected she had cheated on him. Thai Xuan Binh, 34, was detained by police of Long Thanh District on Thursday for “deliberate infliction of bodily harm upon another person.” Two days prior, while …

The sheer number of people traveling from Vietnam to Cambodia’s Sihanoukville and sold into modern slavery is a major challenge to rescue efforts. Since the beginning of this year the Vietnamese consulate in Sihanoukville has collaborated with Cambodian authorities to carry out 50-60 searches and rescued over 600 people from …

A South Korean court has issued an arrest warrant for Do Kwon, the primary developer of cryptocurrencies Luna and TerraUSD, whose spectacular collapse in May roiled crypto markets around the world. Kwon, also the founder of blockchain platform Terraform Labs, has been accused of fraud by investors in the wake …

The world has never been in a better position to end the Covid-19 pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, his most optimistic outlook yet on the years-long health crisis which has killed over six million people. “We are not there yet. But the end is …

Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson on Wednesday announced that she would resign after an unprecedented right-wing and far-right bloc narrowly won Sunday’s election. Out of the Swedish parliament’s 349 seats, the right-wing opposition was set to win 176, thanks in part to a surge by far-right Sweden Democrats (SD), with …

Japan is expected to waive visa requirements for certain tourists and remove a limit on daily arrivals in October as it aims to benefit from a rebound in global tourism, Nikkei reported on Thursday. Following the change, Japan will not require visas for short-term travelers from the United States and …

Powerful gales and torrential rains battered Zhoushan in eastern China on Wednesday as Typhoon Muifa made landfall at the port city in what local media called the strongest tropical cyclone to hit the populous Yangtze River Delta in a decade. Muifa landed around 8:30 p.m.(1230 GMT) as a strong typhoon, …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s car was involved in a traffic accident in Kyiv, but he is not seriously hurt, his spokesman Serhii Nykyforov said in a Facebook post early on Thursday. Nykyforov – who did not say when the accident occurred – said Zelenskiy’s car had collided with a private …

A couple sent their 3-year-old son to a man in the Central Highlands’ Lam Dong to treat developmental issues, only to receive him back in an urn 25 days later. In a complaint sent to police of Lam Dong Province, Nghia and his wife, from the central province of Thua …