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The coronavirus outbreak could result in at least a 3.3% drop — and as high as a 9% dip — in the volume of PCs that will ship globally this year, research firm Canalys reported Thursday evening in its revised projections to clients. PC shipments will be down between 10.1%…

HANOI (Reuters) - Police in Vietnam have charged seven people in connection with the deaths of 39 migrants whose bodies were discovered in the back of a truck near London last year, authorities said late on Thursday.The victims, who included two 15-year-old boys, were mostly from two provinces in north-central…

HANOI/LANG SON (Reuters) - Vietnam has eased restrictions on cross-border trade with China to prop up economic activities hit by the new coronavirus, the Ministry of Industry and Trade said on Thursday. Container trucks are seen while waiting for cross the border at Huu Nghi border gate connecting with China,…

Both South Korea and Vietnam are starting to restrict the movement of people en masse as more fatal cases of coronavirus appear outside of China. South Korea, which on Thursday recorded its first death from the virus, almost doubled its official count of infections in one day. The 2.5 million citizens…

In Ho Chi Minh City surgical masks are a common sight. Kate Taylor/Business Insider Three weeks into a two-month trip throughout Asia, it has been impossible not to have travel plans disrupted by the deadly coronavirus COVID-19.With a relatively low rate of confirmed cases outside China, fears about catching the…

Samsung took the wraps off its second foldable smartphone, the Galaxy Z Flip, alongside the Galaxy S20 series last week. The Galaxy Z Flip comes with a new clamshell form-factor and is also more affordable than last year's Galaxy Fold. It, however, is not a successor to the Galaxy Fold.…

A company in Hanoi, Vietnam, has been producing face masks made out of toilet paper, authorities discovered on Wednesday.The manufacturer, Viet Han Company Ltd, faces high penalties. Before the discovery, officials found and seized roughly 140,000 masks.Sixteen cases of the novel coronavirus have been confirmed in Vietnam. Face-mask demand has…

Hau Dinh/ AP PhotoA company in Hanoi, Vietnam, has been producing face masks made out of toilet paper, authorities discovered on Wednesday.The manufacturer, Viet Han Company Ltd, faces high penalties. Before the discovery, officials found and seized roughly 140,000 masks.Sixteen cases of the novel coronavirus have been confirmed in Vietnam.…

HANOI, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Vietnam has turned away a German-owned cruise ship with more than 1,000 passengers on board over fears of coronavirus infections on board, state media reported on Friday.Authorities in Quang Ninh province, home to the UNESCO world heritage site Ha Long Bay, decided on Tuesday not…

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam is monitoring more than 5,000 workers who returned to the Southeast Asian country after the Lunar New Year holiday for signs of coronavirus, state media reported on Friday. On Thursday, Communist-ruled Vietnam quarantined a rural commune of 10,000 people near Hanoi because of fears the coronavirus…