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China on Tuesday slashed the quarantine time for inbound travelers by half in a major easing of one of the world’s strictest Covid-19 curbs, which have deterred travel in and out of the country since 2020. Quarantine at centralized facilities has been cut to seven days from 14, and subsequent …

Three ships of the Russian Navy’s Pacific Fleet have completed their three-day visit to Vietnam’s central Khanh Hoa Province on Tuesday. Destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov, corvette Gremyashchy and oil tanker Pechenga led by Colonel Alexey Anciferov had docked at the strategic naval base at Cam Ranh Bay in Khanh Hoa from …

Two North-South Expressway sections through Phu Yen and Khanh Hoa provinces will be built this year at VND23.5 trillion ($1 billion), its investor proposed. In a feasibility study report sent to the Ministry of Transport, the project management unit No. 7 under the ministry said one of the sections, Chi …

The United States said Monday it would step up cooperation with Vietnam among others to combat illegal fishing. As a major U.N. conference opened in Portugal on restoring the planet’s ailing oceans, U.S. President Joe Biden signed a memorandum that aimed to step up coordination and enforcement within the U.S. …

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte often incited violence and ordered police to shoot dead suspects in a drug war that has killed thousands. But analysts say he is unlikely to face charges after he steps down Thursday. Duterte’s signature policy to rid the country of drugs has been widely condemned and …

At least 40 people were found dead inside a tractor-trailer on Monday in San Antonio, Texas, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the matter. San Antonio’s KSAT television reported 42 people dead inside the truck, citing unidentified San Antonio police sources. The truck was found next to railroad …

A major UN conference on how to restore the faltering health of global oceans kicked off in Lisbon this week with a flurry of promises to expand marine protected areas, ban deep-sea mining, and combat illegal fishing. UN chief Antonio Guterres set the tone Monday for the five-day meet by …

Vietnam has recorded the subvariant BA.5 of Omicron, Phan Trong Lan, head of the General Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health, said Monday. Further information regarding the BA.5 cases and their conditions have not been disclosed. According to Lan, the detection of new strains is inevitable as …

Australia is committed to strengthening its strategic partnership with Vietnam and highly values its regional role, visiting Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Monday. Reciprocating her sentiment, her Vietnamese counterpart Bui Thanh Son welcomed Wong’s choice of Vietnam as her first Southeast Asian destination since taking office last month. He said …

President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are set to make contact in the “next few weeks,” a senior U.S. official told reporters Monday. They “will have the opportunity to engage over the course of the next few weeks,” National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said. A new call …