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Canadian police on Saturday used pepper spray and stun grenades, and made dozens of arrests as they cleared demonstrators from the street in front of parliament, where they have been camping for more than three weeks to protest against pandemic restrictions. A total of 170 arrests have been made in …

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison accused Beijing of an ‘act of intimidation’ after a Chinese navy vessel directed a laser at an Australian military surveillance aircraft last week. A P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft was illuminated on Thursday while flying over Australia’s northern approaches by a laser from a People’s …

As Hong Kong battles a surge in coronavirus cases, city authorities said they are ramping up the provision of community isolation and treatment units helped by mainland construction teams, including the reprovisioning of a cruise ship terminal. With a reported 6,063 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, the government said in …

The E.U. is seeing stepped-up “manipulation” of information to support what looks like fabricated pretexts for military escalation in Ukraine, its foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warned on Saturday. “The E.U. is extremely concerned that staged events… could be used as a pretext for possible military escalation,” Borrell said in …

The HCMC health department has called for better capabilities to detect and treat Covid-19 cases in preparation for a possible surge. Covid-19 cases in Ho Chi Minh City have risen slightly following the end of the Lunar New Year holiday and after students returned to school. The city recorded nearly …

A high school in HCMC published an apology Saturday after its recent Facebook post of a former student being honored in the Forbes Under 30 list triggered public anger. Earlier this week, the High School for the Gifted posted information of its former student Ngo Hoang Anh being honored in …

International schools in HCMC and Hanoi have reopened with Covid-19 safety protocols in place, and parents are mostly unworried about sending their children. On Feb 14 international schools in HCMC welcomed back preschool, primary and grade six students after months of online learning as Vietnam sought to contain Covid. The …

Camera footage shows a man wearing a delivery service’s costume driving a motorbike, snatching a golden necklace from another man in HCMC. The 62-year-old victim was walking back to his home along an alley in Thu Duc’s Binh Trung Dong Ward on Thursday afternoon when he saw a man wearing …

Vietnam confirmed 41,968 local Covid-19 cases in 61 localities on Saturday with Hanoi and northern provinces leading the infection tally. Hanoi recorded 4,869 cases, followed by Bac Ninh with 3,040 cases and Quang Ninh with 1,990 cases. The Ministry of Health confirmed 65 Covid-19 deaths on the same day, including …

Australia provided Vietnam an additional 2.2 million Pfizer vaccine doses Saturday, meeting its commitment to deliver a total 7.8 million. The final shipment arrived at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City as part of 3.6 million vaccine doses Australia gave Vietnam in recent weeks, a UNICEF …