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Macau has announced a two-week ban on any inbound passenger flights from outside of China after three coronavirus cases were found in passengers arriving from overseas. The move came the same day Hong Kong banned flights from eight nations and ramped up social distancing measures, leaving the two neighboring Chinese …

Several Vietnamese carriers have voiced concerns over Covid-19 protocols that are hassling passengers before and after they take flights to Vietnam after the recent partial reopening of commercial international flights. From January 1 to 3, around 17 international flights brought over 1,700 passengers to Vietnam. Two of them were commercial …

Police have rescued seven Vietnamese women being smuggled to Cambodia to work as prostitutes and arrested three suspected human traffickers. Dong Nai police have detained Nguyen Tien Dung, 25, Loc Thi Luan, 21, and Ngo Nguyen Dong Khoa, 54, for “human trafficking” and “organizing illegal emigration.” According to investigators, Dung …

A man in Dak Lak was arrested Wednesday after compromising over 400 Facebook accounts to steal over VND10 billion ($438,657). Pham Vu Quang Truong, 20, was arrested by police of the Central Highlands’ Dak Lak Province to be investigated for obtaining property by fraud. A search at Truong’s residence revealed …

Vietnam has injected 90 percent of its adult population with two Covid-19 vaccine doses and is among the six countries with the highest vaccination rate. In late April last year, when the fourth Covid-19 wave emerged, Vietnam had administered only 320,000 vaccine doses and by last October, as many as …

A Vietnam Airlines aircraft flying from Japan’s Narita airport to Hanoi was diverted to another Japanese airport after a caller threatened that it would be shot down over Tokyo Bay. About 40 minutes after the flight had taken off, at 11.10 a.m. local time, the airlines’ office in Japan received …

A Vietnam Airlines aircraft flying from Narita, Japan to Hanoi has been reroute to land at another Japanese airport after the airline received a shootdown phone call threat. The decision was made as the flag carrier’s office in Japan received a phone call at around 11:10 am local time Wednesday …

The Health Ministry announced 16,997 new domestic Covid-19 patients Wednesday in 63 cities and provinces, down 4,699 cases from Tuesday. Most of the new cases were detected in Hanoi, at 2,505. It was followed by Tay Ninh with 862 cases and Hai Phong, 792 cases. In the past 24 hours, …

The South Korean government said on Wednesday it will appeal against a court order to exclude private education facilities from a Covid-19 vaccine pass mandate, the first major legal tussle over vaccinations that have been widely accepted. A Seoul administrative court ruled on Tuesday that private education facilities such as …

Covid cases in the locked-down Chinese city of Xi’an fell to their lowest in weeks on Wednesday, as officials said an outbreak there had been largely “brought under control” after two weeks of a stay-at-home order. But other urban hubs where clusters have been detected face restrictions including a new …