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President Joe Biden unveiled a new rule to rein in so-called ghost guns and ban the manufacturing of the untraceable firearms on Monday as the administration faces growing pressure to crack down on gun deaths and violent crime in the United States. Ghost guns are privately made firearms that are …

Hanoi will form 579 squads to capture stray dogs and cats for rabies prevention and require official pet ownership declarations. In accordance with a recently issued guideline for rabies prevention in the 2022-2030 period, the Hanoi People’s Committee requires people to declare ownership of dogs and cats to local authorities. …

Philippine authorities said on Monday at least 25 people had died in landslides and floods caused by tropical storm Megi as it hit the eastern and southern coasts of the Southeast Asian country. The storm made landfall on Sunday with sustained winds of up to 65 kilometers (40 miles) per …

The United States announced Tuesday it had ordered all non-essential employees at its Shanghai consulate to leave, while voicing concerns for the safety of Americans in China as the government enforces hard lockdowns to contain Covid-19. China has stuck tightly to a policy of “zero Covid”, aiming to eliminate infections …

Clutching pink flyers and face masks, diehard supporters of Philippine presidential hopeful Leni Robredo are going door to door across the archipelago nation in an against-the-odds bid to win over voters. Nearly two million volunteers are involved in a grassroots movement for Robredo, the incumbent vice president, as she battles …

The current calculation of minimum living standards on which the nation’s minimum wage is based is not appropriate. Officials and experts agree this should be done by an independent agency. The concept of “minimum living standard”, which was legislated in 2012, is an important basis for calculating the minimum wage. …

Nearly 209,000 Vietnamese chose to exit the social insurance scheme in the first three months of the year and take a one-time withdrawal, up 1 percent from a year ago. HCMC alone had more than 37,000 people applying for the lump sum payout, an increase of about 19 percent over …

The current calculation of minimum living standards on which the nation’s minimum wage is based is not appropriate. Officials and experts agree this should be done by an autonomous agency. The concept of “minimum living standard”, which was legislated in 2012, is an important basis for calculating the minimum wage. …

The Health Ministry announced 51,921 new Covid-19 patients in 61 provinces and cities on Monday. The figure included 28,740 cases from the central province of Thanh Hoa, which were detected on previous days but yet to be added to the national database. The addition made Thanh Hoa the locality with …

Indonesia’s biggest tech firm soared on its market debut Monday after a billion-dollar IPO that was the world’s fifth-biggest this year, defying recent heavy weather for Asian tech stocks. GoTo, the largest digital ecosystem in the archipelago nation of 270 million people, was formed by the merger of ride-hailing company …