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American Heather Kaye and her family, including cat Mochi, are part of a wave of residents departing Shanghai, leaving behind their homes and memories, driven out by two years of strict Covid-19 curbs, including a crushing two-month lockdown. Heather and husband George arrived in Shanghai from New York in 2006 …

Apple on Wednesday unveiled a new way for activists, journalists and other targets of state-sponsored espionage to protect themselves from spyware. A Lockdown Mode being added to iPhones, iPads, and Mac computers is intended to counter threats from a thriving industry that provides sophisticated espionage tools to governments. “While the …

G20 foreign ministers travel to the resort island of Bali this week for a meeting that will be overshadowed by the war in Ukraine, with Russia’s attendance creating rifts in the bloc as host Indonesia tries to mediate. The Group of 20 includes Western countries that have accused Moscow of …

Tens of millions of people were under lockdown across China on Wednesday and businesses in a major tourist city were forced to close as fresh Covid clusters sparked fears of even wider restrictions. Chinese health authorities reported more than 300 infections in the historic northern city of Xi’an — home …

A railway guard in the southern Dong Nai Province saved a drunken man who fell onto the tracks mere seconds before a train passed. On Tuesday night, a drunk 50-year-old man was looking for cigarettes near a train track in Long Khanh Town’s Xuan Lap Ward. At the time, the …

A woman in the central Quang Binh Province was swimming at the beach Monday when the waves pushed her away from shore, setting her adrift for seven hours. Le Thi Lien, 40, went out to exercise before going for a swim at a beach in Hai Phu Commune at around …

Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov highly evaluated the partner role of Vietnam in the region during his visit to the country. “I’m glad to be here again. Vietnam is an important partner of Russia in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN),” Lavrov said when meeting Vietnamese Minister …

China is fighting nascent Covid-19 flare-ups across the country with mass testing and fresh restrictions, including in weary Shanghai where new cases have been linked to a building which houses a karaoke lounge that was operating illegally. Pressure is mounting on officials to avert a wider spread and disruptions similar …

The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee chair and top Republican have called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate social media app TikTok and Chinese parent ByteDance due to “repeated misrepresentations” over its handling of U.S. data. The request on Tuesday from Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat, and Republican Marco …

National Assembly delegates differed over a proposal to hand lighter penalties to corrupt officials turning in their ill-gotten assets. Le Minh Tri, head of the Supreme People’s Procuracy, had recently mooted the proposal saying corrupt officials should be given a chance to atone while public assets are also recovered. Trinh …