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China’s commercial hub of Shanghai ground to halt on Friday after the government locked down most of the city’s 26 million residents. The action is to stop the spread of Covid-19, even as official numbers put local cases falling for the second day in a row. The city government late …

Lieutenant-General Do Quyet, director of Vietnam Military Medical University in Hanoi, is facing disciplinary actions for his involvement in a Covid-19 test kit scam at a HCMC technology firm. The Communist Party Central Inspection Committee on Thursday asked the Secretariat, the Party’s unit in charge of personnel issues, to discipline …

The director of Vietnam Military Medical University in Hanoi is facing disciplinary actions for his involvement in a Covid-19 test kit scam scandal at a HCMC technology firm. The Communist Party Central Inspection Committee on Thursday asked the Secretariat, the Party’s unit in charge of personnel issues, to discipline Lieutenant-General …

The director of Vietnam Military Medical University in Hanoi is facing disciplinary actions for his involvement in a Covid-19 test kit scam scandal at a HCMC technology firm. The Communist Party Central Inspection Committee on Thursday asked the Secretariat, the Party’s unit in charge of personnel issues, to discipline Lieutenant-General …

Police imposed an overnight curfew in several parts of Sri Lanka’s main city of Colombo early on Friday The incident occured after protests over the government’s handling of the country’s worst economic crisis in decades turned violent, an official said. Hundreds of protesters gathered near President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s private residence …

A group of Taiwanese puppeteers are looking to use non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, to help bring their traditional art form into the modern era and keep it relevant. NFTs are crypto assets representing a digital item such as an image, video, or even land in virtual worlds, with prices of …

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange of violating US laws by selling unregistered tokens and failing to register as an exchange or broker-dealer. The lawsuit had been brought in Manhattan by digital token investors who had bought nine tokens – EOS, QSP, KNC, …

Hanoi on Wednesday began construction on a VND4 trillion ($175.1 million) waste-to-energy plant in Son Tay Town. The Seraphin waste-to-energy plant at the Xuan Son solid waste treatment facility, to be funded by multiple sources, will have a treatment capacity of 1,500-2,000 tons each day and have an electricity production …

Hanoi on Wednesday began construction on a VND4 trillion ($175.1 million) waste-to-energy plant in Son Tay Town. The Seraphin waste-to-energy plant at the Xuan Son solid waste treatment facility, to be funded by multiple sources, will have a treatment capacity of 1,500-2,000 tons each day and have an electricity production …

The health minister, Hanoi chairman and other senior officials bear responsibility for a Covid-19 test kit scam scandal involving the Viet A Technology Corporation, the Party’s top watchdog said Thursday. Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long, chairman of Hanoi People’s Committee Chu Ngoc Anh, Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Truong Son …