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A six-year-old boy and his four-year-old sister drowned in a canal near their home in HCMC’s District 12 on Monday. At around 2 p.m. the children were playing near the canal on TX33 Street in Thanh Xuan District. But when their mother came to check on them, she could not …

The Philippines woke to a new but familiar political dawn on Tuesday, after an election triumph by Ferdinand Marcos Jr paved the way for a once unimaginable return to the country’s highest office for its most notorious political dynasty. Marcos, better known as “Bongbong”, trounced bitter rival Leni Robredo to …

President Joe Biden’s visit to Japan this month is expected to coincide with the formal launch of a new U.S. economic strategy for the Indo-Pacific, even as China seeks “very aggressively” to fill a void since Washington quit a regional trade pact, Tokyo’s ambassador to the United States said on …

BioNTech’s 22UAy.DE first-quarter sales and earnings more than tripled thanks to demand for the Covid-19 vaccine it developed with Pfizer PFE.N, but the German biotech firm is still forecasting a full-year decline in vaccine sales. Quarterly revenues more than tripled from a year earlier to 6.37 billion euros ($6.73 billion), …

Indonesia has identified 15 cases of severe hepatitis of unknown origin after reporting three deaths among children, the country’s health minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin told a news briefing on Monday. The World Health Organization said last week that it had received reports of at least 228 probable cases from 20 …

Almost 200 animals saved from captivity on various occasions have been released into the Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park in central Vietnam. The management board of the park in Quang Binh Province said it has collaborated with Hanoi’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and Hanoi Wildlife Rescue …

Millions of people in Beijing stayed home on Monday as China’s capital tries to fend off a Covid-19 outbreak with creeping restrictions on movement. Beijing residents fear they may soon find themselves in the grip of the same draconian measures that have trapped most of Shanghai’s 25 million people at …

A court in HCMC has sentenced a Vietnamese woman to 12 years in prison for selling to China a baby she had adopted. Tran Thi Tinh, 40, a resident in northern Vinh Phuc Province, received the jail term on May 5 for “trafficking of a person under 16.” For the …

A special mechanism granting greater autonomy to HCMC in 2017 has allowed it to simplify some administrative procedures, but not increased budget revenues as expected. HCMC was granted extra autonomous decision-making power in November 2017 to help the nation’s economic hub develop to its full potential as per Resolution 54 …

Millions of Filipinos thronged primary schools and other polling stations Monday to elect a new president, with the son of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos the favorite to win the high-stakes election. Nearly 40 years after the patriarch was deposed by a popular revolt and the family chased into exile, Ferdinand …