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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…

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 …

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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…