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Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye was released from prison on Friday nearly five years after being convicted of corruption. Park, 69, was the country’s first democratically elected leader to be thrown out of office when the Constitutional Court upheld a parliamentary vote in 2017 to impeach her over a …

The Philippine death toll from Typhoon Rai has crossed the 400 mark, the disaster agency said on Friday. Officials in some hard-hit provinces appealed for more supplies of food, water and shelter materials about two weeks after the storm struck. Rai was the 15th and deadliest typhoon to hit the …

Around 680,000 secondary and high-school students will resume in-person classes from Jan. 4, HCMC’s administration announced Friday. The 7th, 8th, 10th, and 11th graders will get back to school three weeks after the city kicked off the plan to resume in-person classes, starting with ninth and 12th graders. Foreign language …

HCMC police have arrested the father of an eight-year-old girl who is said to have died after sustained violent abuse by his fiancée. Nguyen Kim Trung Thai, 36, will be investigated for his role in the abuse suffered by the girl, Binh Thanh District police Friday. Police have deemed him …

HCMC police have arrested the father of an eight-year-old girl who had been abused to death by his fiancée, saying he was an accomplice. Nguyen Kim Trung Thai, 36, is now investigated for abuse, police in Binh Thanh District said on Friday. Police had arrested 26-year-old Nguyen Vo Quynh Trang, …

U.S. health experts urged Americans to prepare for severe disruptions in coming weeks as the rising wave of Omicron variant threatened hospitals, schools and other sectors impacting their daily lives. The warning came as the United States reached a record high in Covid-19 cases, while federal officials issued more travel …

US health experts urged Americans to prepare for severe disruptions in coming weeks as the rising wave of Omicron variant threatened hospitals, schools and other sectors impacting their daily lives. The warning came as the United States reached a record high in Covid-19 cases, while federal officials issued more travel …

Fourteen people arriving in Vietnam from South Korea and the U.S. have been confirmed to be infected with the Omicron coronavirus strain. The Health Department of the central Quang Nam Province announced Friday the infected passengers landed in the Da Nang International Airport in Da Nang on four different flights. …

The Ministry of Finance signed an agreement with the Netherlands to help the southern province of Vinh Long build a water treatment plan. Following the signing, Netherlands Invest International granted $19.5 million (16.5 million Euros) for the project. Police officers help motorbike drivers stranded in floodwaters in Vinh Long in …

Hanoi has reverted a previous decision to put visitors from Omicron-hit countries into centralized quarantine and is expected to make a new announcement later. A representative of the Ministry of Transport said Nguyen Manh Quyen, deputy chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee, announced at a Thursday meeting that the city …