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HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam has quarantined a community of 10,000 people near the capital, Hanoi, for 20 days because of fears the coronavirus could spread there, two local officials told Reuters on Thursday. The rural commune of Son Loi, in the northern Vietnameseprovince of Vinh Phuc, 44 km (27 miles)…

By Elly Earls7 minute ReadBy the time she was 27, Huong Nguyen had launched her own travel tech startup and traveled to and worked from more than 30 countries. But back home in Vietnam, some of her family and friends still think she’s unemployed.“Especially for middle-class Asian parents, after graduation,…

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam confirmed another case of the new coronavirus on Tuedsay, bringing its total to 15, the health ministry said. The latest case is a three-month-old baby, infected by her grandmother, who tested positive for the virus on Feb. 9, the …

It has done so most often in Singapore, removing five items including The Last Temptation of Christ (which is banned in the country), Brazilian comedy The Last Hangover and a trio of weed-related shows, because cannabis is illegal there. Netflix has also pulled The Bridge in New Zealand (which deems…

People line up to buy protective masks at a shop in Hanoi, Vietnam February 6, 2020. REUTERS/KhamHANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam said on Thursday it has confirmed two new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total to 12. Both the new cases are Vietnamese nationals from the northern province of Vinh…

In January 1974, South Vietnamese forces clashed with the People’s Liberation Army Navy in the Paracel Island chain—a hot spot between China and present day Vietnam today.The two countries had established their competing claims to the islands—which the Vietnamese refer to as Hoang Sa and the Chinese call Xisha—well before…

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam confirmed an additional three cases of the new coronavirus, the health ministry said, bringing the country’s total to eight cases. The latest confirmed case were in the same flight from Wuhan, China, to Vietnam and had close contact with three previous patients detected on Jan. 30…

A woman wearing a face mask uses her cellphone outside Beijing Railway Station as the country is hit by an outbreak of the new coronavirus, in Beijing, China January 30, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia RawlinsHANOI (Reuters) - Three new cases of coronavirus have emerged in Vietnam, the official health ministry newspaper…

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a news conference on the situation of the coronavirus at the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, January 29, 2020. REUTERS/Denis BalibouseGENEVA (Reuters) - The person-to-person spread of the new coronavirus in three countries - Germany, Vietnam and Japan…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption The men filmed showering on the motorbike (not pictured here) were criticised on social media Two men have been fined by police after they were filmed showering while riding a motorbike in southern Vietnam, local re…