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25.08.2021 / 17:11

Kamala Harris visits John McCain monument in Vietnam, 3 years after his death

US Vice President Kamala Harris lays flowers at the Senator John McCain memorial site, where his Navy aircraft was shot down by the North Vietnamese, on the three-year anniversary of his death, in Hanoi on August 25, 2021. (Photo by Evelyn HOCKSTEIN HANOI - Vice President Kamala Harris laid flowers Wednesday at the Hanoi memorial site where late Sen.

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U.S. to donate 1 million Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines to Vietnam, says Harris

The United States will donate one million Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses to Vietnam, Vice-President Kamala Harris told Vietnamese Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính in Hanoi on Wednesday.

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VP Harris trip to Vietnam delayed due to report of Havana Syndrome

US Vice President Kamala Harris (R) talks to Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan (centre L) as she departs from Paya Lebar Air Base in Singapore on August 24, 2021. (Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images) NEW YORK - Vice President Kamala Harris' trip from Singapore to Vietnam was delayed Tuesday after a report of a "recent possible anomalous health incident" in Hanoi.The U.S.

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Worsening COVID rise in Vietnam triggers expanded lockdowns

Vietnam, which won praise for controlling COVID-19 in earlier pandemic months, is now battling a quickly rising Delta variant (1617.2) surge, with lockdown measures starting in Hanoi tomorrow and a lockdown extension for Ho Chi Minh City.

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Vietnam vaccinates COVID-19 front-liners with its 1st doses

HANOI – Vietnam administered its first COVID-19 doses Monday to the front-line workers who made the nation's relative success in controlling the pandemic possible — health workers, contact tracers and security forces who handled quarantine duties.

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Vietnam approves AstraZeneca Covid vaccine after new virus outbreak: Report

Reuters.The country has kept its coronavirus caseload to a low of 1,739 infections and 35 fatalities.Earlier on Friday, Vietnam's health minister Nguyen Thanh Long said that a new virus outbreak was "basically under control" in the areas most affected, as cases spread to Hanoi, the capital."In a very short period of time, we've controlled the situation and I see a ray of hope," Long said.Vietnam has been one of the world's virus-mitigation success stories.

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Fresh outbreak in Vietnam grows to 82, company closed

HANOI – Vietnam reported 82 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, hours after confirming the first two infections in nearly two months.

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Asia Today: Vietnam reports 1st local infection in 89 days

HANOI – Vietnamese authorities are conducting intensive contact tracing after discovering the country's first confirmed local transmission of the coronavirus in 89 days.State media said Tuesday that a 32-year-old man in Ho Chi Minh City tested positive for the coronavirus on Monday after visiting a flight attendant who was undergoing self-quarantine at his home following his return from Japan two weeks ago. The flight attendant tested positive on Saturday, the Tuoi Tre newspaper said.

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Japan, Vietnam agree to boost defense, economic, energy ties

HANOI – Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, in his first summit foray since taking office last month, agreed with his Vietnamese counterpart to step up defense and security cooperation in the face of China's expanding influence in the region. In talks in Hanoi on Monday, Suga and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc set a basic agreement allowing Japan to export defense equipment and technology to Vietnam.The deal was expected: Japan has been pursuing such agreements in recent years to bolster ties with Southeast Asia and provide a lifeline to its own defense industry.

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New study unveils how coronavirus spreads on planes and it's bad news for air travel

coronavirus spreads on planes could mean bad news for travellers. The research, published by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), analysed a single 10-hour flight from March.

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Asia Today: Vietnam to resume international flights

HANOI – Vietnam will resume international commercial flights connecting the country to several Asian destinations starting Friday, after a monthslong shutdown to curb the coronavirus outbreak.According to a report posted on the government website, flights connecting Vietnam’s two largest cities — Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City — to destinations in South Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan will operate on a weekly basis. Flights connecting the cities with Cambodia and Laos will resume next week.The flights, however, are reserved for Vietnamese nationals, diplomats, experts, managers, skilled workers, investors and their families.

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Pompeo asks ASEAN states not to let China `walk over us'

HANOI – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked Southeast Asian nations Thursday to go beyond words and act against China’s “bullying” in the disputed South China Sea, promising America will back them up.Pompeo spoke with counterparts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in an annual conference by video due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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ASEAN talks tackle pandemic, sea feud amid US-China rivalry

HANOI : Southeast Asia’s top diplomats were holding their annual talks by video Wednesday to discuss the immense crisis wrought by the coronavirus pandemic and rising tensions in the South China Sea amid the escalating rivalry between Washington and Beijing.The Association of Southeast Asian Nations ministerial meetings, delayed by a month, were being held online due to continuing health risks posed by COVID-19. The 10-nation bloc’s foreign ministers are to meet Asian and Western counterparts, including those from the U.S.

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Vietnam to buy Russian covid vaccine

HANOI : Vietnam's health ministry has registered to buy a Russian COVID-19 vaccine, state television reported on Friday, as the Southeast Asian country fights a new outbreak of the coronavirus following months of no local cases.Russia said on Wednesday the first batch of the world's first COVID-19 vaccine would be rolled out within two weeks, rejecting as "groundless" the safety concerns aired by some experts over Moscow's rapid approval of the drug."In the meantime, Vietnam will still continue developing the country's own COVID-19 vaccine," state broadcaster Vietnam Television (VTV) said, citing Vietnam's Ministry of Health.The ministry did not say how many doses of the Russian vaccine it had ordered, or when it expected to receive them.

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Coronavirus spikes in Asia spur warnings against complacency

'FULL FORCE TO TEST'Vietnam, virus-free for months, has also had a harsh reminder of the dangers with a new surge spreading to six cities and provinces in six days, linked to an outbreak in the central city of Danang.Authorities told tens of thousands of people who visited Danang to report to disease control centres, as nine new cases were confirmed, taking total infections to 42 since the virus resurfaced at the weekend.Cases have also appeared in the capital, Hanoi, the southern commercial hub of Ho Chi Minh City and in the Central Highlands.Thanks to a centralised quarantine programme and aggressive contact-tracing, Vietnam has registered a total of only 459 cases, with no deaths.But now more than 81,000 people are in quarantine and

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Samsung to relocate display production from China to Vietnam: Report

Hanoi: Samsung Electronics is planning to shift much of its display production from China to its plant in southern Vietnam this year, state media said on Friday.Samsung is the single largest foreign investor in Vietnam, with investments totalling $17 billion."Samsung sees Vietnam as an important gateway to other Southeast Asian countries and a link in its global supply chain," state-run newspaper Tuoi Tre reported."The move will make Vietnam become the world's leading supplier of Samsung screens."Samsung did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.The news comes as more companies look to diversify supply chains beyond China, after widespread disruption globally when the novel coronavirus first struck in the world's

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South Korea: Kim did not have surgery amid lingering rumors after reappearance

TOPSHOT - North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un attends a welcoming ceremony and review an honour guard at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi on March 1, 2019. (Photo by MANAN VATSYAYANA / POOL / AFP) (Photo credit should read MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP via Getty

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Viet Nam adopts WHO outbreak investigation tool for COVID-19, other infectious diseases

Mr Armand Bejtullahu, Go.Data project lead at WHO, led the series of Go.Data trainings in Viet Nam (Photo: WHO)

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Virtual summit: SE Asia leaders meet by video on pandemic

HANOI – Forced apart by the coronavirus pandemic, Southeast Asian leaders linked up by video Tuesday to plot a strategy to overcome a crisis that has threatened their economies and kept millions of people in their homes under lockdowns.

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British boy, 11, recovers from coronavirus after two weeks in Vietnam hospital

A British boy has fully recovered from coronavirus after more than two weeks in hospital in Vietnam, sparking celebrations amongst frontline staff.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0