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Foreign tourists visiting Japan will be required to wear masks, take out private medical insurance and be chaperoned throughout their stay, the government said on Tuesday, as it plans a gradual opening from two years of Covid restrictions. Only visitors on package tours will be allowed in during the first …

After staying home for more than a month, Chen Chunmei joined a long line of customers at a popular Beijing restaurant where diners tucked into massive bowls of crayfish following an easing of Covid restrictions in the Chinese capital. Last month, the city of 22 million stopped people from eating …

A Dominican national was sentenced to 12 years in prison in Japan for the murder of a Vietnamese man in August last year. Brian Alberto Cabrera Cruz, 27, beat a Vietnamese man and pushed him into Dotonbori River in Osaka, the local district court ruled Monday, as reported by MBS …

Minister Nguyen Thanh Long was dismissed from his position Tuesday after being expelled from the Communist Party the previous day for his involvement in a Covid-19 test kit scam. The National Assembly approved the dismissal following a vote among delegates in the morning session, which also removed Long from the …

A two-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his father in Florida after his parents left a loaded gun unattended, local authorities said Monday. When police officers, alerted by a 911 call, arrived at the victim’s home near Orlando on May 26, they found the child’s mother Marie Ayala providing CPR …

U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday will suspend tariffs for two years on solar panel imports from four countries and invoke a key power to compel domestic manufacture of clean energy technology, the White House said. The moves are aimed at boosting renewable capacity and combating climate change, a priority …

Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Truong Son, who was active in the national Covid-19 fight but was reprimanded recently due to violations at the ministry, has asked to quit. A source of the Health Ministry said Son has filed his resignation and the government is considering the matter. Son, 58, a …

HCMC will be allocated funds soon to build and complete Ring Road No.3 connecting it with neighboring industrial hubs in 2025, says National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue. The “urgency” of the project has occasioned funding priority for it, Hue said at an NA meeting Monday. The project will be …

Vietnam’s Communist Party expelled Hanoi chairman Chu Ngoc Anh and health minister Nguyen Thanh Long Monday for their involvment in a Covid-19 test kit scam. At an extraordinary meeting on Monday, the Party’s Central Inspection Committee also asked relevant agencies to handle further administrative punishments against the two “in accordance …

Several anti-flooding reservoirs that HCMC has planned have remained on paper for years for lack of land and technical standards as also pricing issues. The city began considering anti-flooding reservoirs over a decade ago as the climate change crisis worsened, but it was only in 2015 did it propose a …