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Vietnam on Thursday recorded 353,962 local Covid-19 cases, including over 175,000 cases from previous days added to the national database by Vinh Phuc and Hai Duong provinces. The total number of infections in the fourth wave since late April last year is now 7,094,869 cases. The three localities with the …

Hanoi’s coronavirus situation is seeing signs of improvement thanks to widespread vaccination coverage, the municipal health department stated Wednesday. Tran Thi Nhi Ha, director of the Hanoi Department of Health, said the number of daily new cases in the city has been dropping over the last five days, from around …

Cambodia on Thursday dispensed with a requirement for visitors from overseas to take Covid-19 tests, as the country moved ahead of most neighbours by relaxing most restrictions to spur more investment and tourism, officials said. The Southeast Asian country has vaccinated 92.31 percent of its population of 16 million against …

Vietnam is looking into the possibility of giving its citizens their fourth Covid-19 vaccine shots, the government office said Wednesday. The office, citing Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, said Vietnam has done research and listened to recommendations from the WHO regarding giving fourth Covid-19 vaccine shots to people. Chinh also …

A 63-year-old woman was sentenced to six years in jail Wednesday for joining a terrorist organization and conducting anti-state activities. Le Thi Kim Phi was charged with “conducting activities against the people’s government”, the An Giang People’s Court in the southern province determined. Since September 2020, Phi used her Facebook …

South Korea recorded a record 621,328 new daily Covid-19 cases and a daily record 429 deaths, authorities said on Thursday, as the country which once took an aggressive anti-pandemic approach is set to end Covid restrictions. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said the highly infectious Omicron variant was …

Every school has its rules, but tough regulations at some Japanese institutions, mandating everything from black hair to white shoelaces, are facing increasing criticism and even legal action. Toshiyuki Kusumoto, a father of two in western Japan’s Oita, is seeking court intervention to protect his younger son from regulations he …

More than 1,000 workers and engineers are operating 600 vehicles and machines to level ground and build a drainage system for Long Thanh International Airport. The construction of Long Thanh airport in Dong Nai Province that borders Ho Chi Minh City has entered the ground leveling and fencing stage. Invested …

Vietnam supports international efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to people in Ukraine, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son said Wednesday. He was speaking with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba by telephone, according to a press release from the Vietnamese foreign ministry. He expressed condolences for the loss of lives …

Thousands of Japanese households remained without power on Thursday as companies worked to assess damage the morning after a powerful quake hit the northeast coast of Japan, leaving at least four dead and nearly 100 injured, some seriously. The magnitude 7.4 quake, which struck shortly before midnight on Wednesday and …