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The postponements were confirmed following a meeting between the Irish Health Minister and the IRFUIreland's men's and women's Six Nations games against Italy in Dublin on 7 and 8 March have been postponed because of coronavirus.Irish Health Minister Simon Harris said on Tuesday the men's game should be postponed and…

Have you ever heard the saying, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”? Well, this adage comes to mind when I think about the M2 Browning .50 caliber machine gun and the M79 grenade launcher. Both of these weapons have a very long, respected history and are still in service.…

Thich Quang Do, a dissident Buddhist monk who has effectively been under house arrest since 2003 and was nominated multiple times for the Nobel Peace Prize, has died aged 93.Head of the banned Unified Buddist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), the vocal patriarch was born on November 27, 1928 in northern…

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…