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Vietnamese workers and interns who have received three Covid-19 vaccine doses can enter Japan without a seven-day quarantine. The accepted vaccines are Pfizer, Moderna, Astra Zeneca and Jassen, Vietnam’s Department of Overseas Labour said Wednesday, adding that the third vaccine dose must be either Pfizer or Moderna for those who …

Japan’s economy likely contracted in the first three months of this year amid the Covid-19 fallout that took a toll on consumption and exports, a Reuters poll showed. The weak reading will underscore the challenge policymakers face in pulling the world’s third-largest economy sustainably out of the pandemic-induced doldrums. While …

Shanghai officials said on Wednesday half the city had achieved “zero Covid” status, but uncompromising restrictions had to remain in place under a national policy which the head of the World Health Organization described as “unsustainable.” Data released by Shanghai, in its sixth week of a painful lockdown, showed the …

Industrial hub Binh Duong Province was the best performer in controlling corruption last year, a national performance index showed. The Ho Chi Minh City’s neighbor got 8.15 points on a 10-point scale in the 2021 Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) released on Tuesday, the only one of …

Thousands of competitors are gathering in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi for the 31st SEA Games after Covid-19 postponed the event for six months. AFP Sport looks at five athletes who could steal the show when the Games begin on Thursday (May 12). 1. Panipak Wongpattanakit (Thailand) Panipak Wongpattanakit (R) was …

Northern Vietnam will see temperatures dropping to 13-21 degrees Celsius along with widespread rains starting Saturday. Nguyen Van Huong, head of the climate forecast department at the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, said temperatures in the north in summer typically range between 25 and 31 degrees Celsius. An incoming mass …

Under pandemic impacts, healthcare had become the issue of highest concern among Vietnamese people, according to the Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) released Tuesday. It found 23.84 percent of 16,000 respondents saying they felt that the issue that state apparatuses should address most urgently was healthcare, up …

Britain is on course to enter a technical recession in the second half of this year and faces a big hit to living standards from surging prices, an economic think-tank said on Wednesday. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) forecast gross domestic product will fall by 0.2 …

The rate of U.S. gun deaths surged 35 percent in 2020 to the highest point since 1994, with especially deadly levels for young Black men, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report published on Tuesday. African Americans as a whole were at least four times …

The rate of U.S. gun deaths surged 35 percent in 2020 to the highest point since 1994, with especially deadly levels for young Black men, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report published on Tuesday. African Americans as a whole were at least four times …