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Almost one million students from first to sixth grades in all 30 districts of Hanoi will resume in-person classes from Wednesday. According to a decision made Monday by the city’s administration following a previous proposal by the Department of Education, kindergarten students will remain home. In its proposal, the Education …

Vietnam will begin issuing vaccine passports starting April 15, the Health Ministry announced Monday. A representative from the ministry’s Department of Information Technology said localities would confirm people’s vaccination status starting April 8, and vaccine passports would be available starting April 15. “People won’t have vaccine passports if either their …

Multi-genre artist Jon Batiste won album of the year and R&B duo Silk Sonic took two of the top honors at a Grammy awards ceremony that featured a surprise appeal for support from wartime President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of Ukraine. Batiste landed the night’s biggest prize for “We Are,” an album …

China sent the military and thousands of healthcare workers into Shanghai to help execute Covid-19 tests for all of its 26 million residents on Monday, in one of its biggest ever public health responses. Some residents were asked to wake up before dawn for nucleic acid testing at their housing …

China’s transport ministry expects a 20 percent drop in road traffic and a 55 percent fall in flights during the three-day Qingming holiday due to a flare-up of Covid-19 cases in the country. More than 27 Chinese provinces and regions have recently reported coronavirus cases, mostly the highly transmissible Omicron …

Sacramento police said on Sunday that multiple shooters were involved in early morning violence that left six people dead and another 12 with gunshot wounds, but that the suspects remain at large. Police Chief Kathy Lester provided no information about any suspects or the motivation for the shootings that took …

Hundreds of protesters in tightly controlled Singapore staged a rare demonstration against the death penalty Sunday as fears grow the city-state is set to carry out a wave of hangings. Authorities last week conducted the country’s first execution since 2019 when they hanged a drug trafficker. Several other death row …

The Health Ministry announced 102,046 domestic Covid-19 patients in 61 cities and provinces Sunday, including 51,316 detected on previous days in the northern Thai Binh and Bac Giang provinces. Most of the new cases were detected Thai Binh (41,725), followed by Bac Giang (13,819) and Hanoi (6,304). In the past …

Flash floods triggered by heavy rain over the last three days have destroyed 103,000 hectares of rice fields and 160,000 plants in the central region. The floods, which struck Thursday and receded Friday, disrupted the lives of residents in nine provinces from Quang Binh to Khanh Hoa, according to the …

The southern metropolis of HCMC has been ranked the fourth noisiest city in the world in a United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) report. The “Frontiers 2022: Noise, Blazes and Mismatches” report ranks 61 cities in total: 13 from South Asia, 10 from Europe, 10 from West Asia, 11 from East …