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China’s financial center of Shanghai started easing its lockdown in some areas on Monday despite reporting a record of more than 25,000 new Covid-19 infections, as authorities strive to get the city moving again after more than two weeks. Pressure has been mounting on authorities in China’s most populous city, …

Shopkeepers on HCMC’s Le Loi Road, a major shopping area, are eagerly awaiting the removal of barriers put up for metro line construction to revive their business.     Saigon downtown shopkeepers await reopening as metro construction site cleared Saigon downtown shopkeepers await reopening as metro construction site cleared

China’s financial center of Shanghai reported more than 25,000 new coronavirus infections as authorities began on Monday to shape an exit plan from a lockdown of its 25 million residents, many of them chafing at the human cost of such quarantines. Some areas are struggling to find food and medicine …

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 …

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s government could lose the federal election to be held on May 21, according to polls on Monday, even as they showed him consolidating his position as the country’s preferred leader on the first day of campaigning. A Newspoll survey conducted for The Australian newspaper showed …

The Da Lat administration is gathering opinions from local departments and agencies on setting up a pedestrian street along the Xuan Huong Lake. The pedestrian street, which is part of a draft plan to develop the night-time economy in the hill resort town in the Central Highlands, will be on …

Flash opinion polls conducted in the wake of first-round voting in France’s presidential election Sunday forecast that Emmanuel Macron will secure a new five-year term in the second-round run-off on April 24 against far-right rival Marine Le Pen. The contest will be a rematch of the 2017 fight that Macron, …

Russia has made a “massive strategic blunder” as Finland and Sweden look poised to join NATO as early as the summer, The Times reported on Monday, citing officials. The United States officials said that NATO membership for both Nordic countries was “a topic of conversation and multiple sessions” during talks …

The Health Ministry on Sunday announced 28,307 new local Covid-19 cases, with Hanoi continuing to account for most infections. The capital city reported 2,181 cases on Sunday, followed by northern provinces of Yen Bai and Vinh Phuc at 1,510 and 938. On Tuesday, the ministry also reported another 19 deaths …

Shanghai reported nearly 25,000 locally transmitted Covid-19 infections on Sunday, as residents of China’s most populous city voiced complaints over food and basic supplies and concern spread that cities may soon be in the same situation. Streets of the locked-down financial hub of 26 million people remained as curbs under …