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Intel Corp will invest more than $7 billion to build a new chip-packaging and testing factory in Malaysia, Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger said on Thursday, expanding production in the country following a global shortage of semiconductors. The new advanced packaging facility in Malaysia is expected to begin production in 2024, …

Vietnamese envoys to several countries have urged the government to quickly resume commercial flights and end quarantine requirements, saying the demand to travel to Vietnam is huge. “Singaporean enterprises are looking forward to coming to Vietnam to foster their business,” the ambassador to Singapore, Mai Phuoc Dung, told VnExpress International …

Two people were jailed Wednesday for spreading misinformation regarding a clash over military land at Hanoi’s Dong Tam Commune in 2020. Trinh Ba Phuong, 36, and Nguyen Thi Tam, 49, were sentenced to 10 and six years in prison respectively for “making, storing, spreading information, materials, items for the purpose …

Universities canceled events, the National Football League reported a record number of cases, and long lines formed at New York City testing clinics as a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases and concern over the Omicron variant disrupted American life anew. The NFL and two other major North American sports leagues …

The World Health Organization warned Tuesday Omicron was spreading at an unprecedented rate and urged countries to act, as drug maker Pfizer said its coronavirus pill was effective against the variant. Dutch primary schools will close early as Europe battles a fresh wave of infections and hospital admissions, while British …

The investor of Ho Chi Minh City’s metro line No. 1 has proposed one more independent consultant to ensure objectivity while investigating its beam faults. HCMC Management Authority for Urban Railways (MAUR) proposed to Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which funds the metro project, that the additional consultant be independent …

South Korea warned on Wednesday it may reinstate stricter social distancing curbs as it posted a new record daily coronavirus tally due to a persistent spike in breakthrough infections among those vaccinated and serious cases. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) posted 7,850 cases for Tuesday, with the …

One person was injured after a fire broke out at Hong Kong’s World Trade Centre in the bustling commercial and shopping district of Causeway Bay, the government said on Wednesday, with media reporting dozens of people trapped inside. The blaze was upgraded to a level 3 incident on a scale …

The Health Ministry on Tuesday allowed Ho Chi Minh City to trial cutting down centralized quarantine for certain Covid-19 cases from 14 to seven days. Previously, the HCMC Department of Health requested for the city to cut down its centralized quarantine period to seven days in order to relieve the …

Only 6,900 train tickets have been sold so far for Tet, the Lunar New Year, in early February, or just 20 percent of the total seats available. For the period from January 20 to February 13, Hanoi station has sold only 300 tickets, or a fifth of the usual number …