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The Health Ministry announced 265,143 new domestic Covid-19 patients Wednesday in 63 cities and provinces, the highest single-day tally to date. Most of the new cases were detected in Nghe An Province, at 56,192, including 45,896 cases detected on previous days that were only added to the national database now. …

While preschools in Ho Chi Minh City resumed in-person classes on March 1, many parents remain wary of lingering Covid threats. Hoa Mai Preschool, a public school in District 3, started receiving kids aged from 13 to 19 months old on Tuesday after it reopened for those from 19 to …

An Omicron variant, known as a “stealth” version of the coronavirus, is now dominant in Ho Chi Minh City, the municipal health department stated Wednesday. Among 67 coronavirus samples sequenced in HCMC, 24 belonged to the BA.1 sublineage and 43 to the BA.2 sublineage, also known as the “stealth variant”, …

Floods that have devastated Australia’s east coast will be declared a national emergency, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday, as authorities look to deploy aid and urgent supplies to the worst-hit areas. Morrison, on a visit to the devastated town of Lismore in northern New South Wales, also pledged …

Cryptominers in Vietnam are switching to 4G Internet connections from unstable fiber ones. Earlier this month mining groups began to complain about poor Internet connections affecting their work. Veteran miners have said that while mining does not always require very fast Internet connections, they have to be stable. Normally, miners …

Oil prices settled around 4 percent higher on Tuesday as the United States banned Russian oil imports and Britain said it will phase them out by year end, decisions expected to further disrupt the global energy market where Russia is the second-largest exporter of crude. Oil prices have surged more …

McDonald’s Corp said on Tuesday it would temporarily close all 847 of its restaurants in Russia including its iconic Pushkin Square location, increasing pressure on other global brands to pause operations in the country. The closure of the McDonald’s restaurants will also carry symbolic importance in Russia, where the first …

Oil prices settled around 4 percent higher on Tuesday as the United States banned Russian oil imports and Britain said it will phase them out by year end, decisions expected to further disrupt the global energy market where Russia is the second-largest exporter of crude. Oil prices have surged more …

Ho Chi Minh City police arrested a man Tuesday for tricking a Japanese firm into buying medical gloves, then robbing it. Nguyen Nam Huy, 39, is being investigated for “fraudulent appropriation of assets.” Huy’s wife, Do Thi Thu Mai, who co-owns HCMC-based She Medical Company alongside her husband, and Nguyen …

U.S. lawmakers have passed a bill that would make lynching a federal hate crime, after more than a century of failed attempts to introduce such legislation. The bill is named after Emmett Till, an African-American teenager whose brutal killing galvanized the US civil rights movement in the 1950s. The Senate …