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Vietnam deployed soldiers on Monday to help enforce a strict COVID lockdown in Ho Chi Minh City, its biggest urban area and current epicentre of its worst coronavirus outbreak to date.

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Vietnam will deploy troops to industrial Binh Duong province, a major manufacturing hub in the Southeast Asian country, to help contain an expected 50,000 additional coronavirus infections there over the next two weeks, the government said on Thursday.

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's health ministry reported 10,266 new COVID-19 infections and 389 deaths on Monday, most of which were detected in outbreak ...

Visitors to Thailand's resort island of Phuket in July were at just 1% of pre-pandemic levels, an official told Reuters, as a bid to revive tourism to the Southeast Asian country gets off to a slow start amid its biggest COVID-19 outbreak yet.

Singapore will from next week lift some COVID-19 curbs and ease restrictions on entry for foreign workers, its health minister said on Friday, as the share of people who have been fully vaccinated against the virus in the city state nears 70%.

By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) - Canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said a Chinese courts sentencing of Canadian businessman Michael Spavor to 11 years in prison for espionage on Wednesday was absolutely unacceptable and called for his immediate release. The United States embassy in Beijing also condemned the sentencing in a statement, saying that proceedings against Spavor and another Canadian charged with espionage were an attempt to use human beings as bargaining leverage . The espionag...

Singapore to double police cameras to more than 200,000 over next decade FILE PHOTO: A police surveillance camera is seen in Singapore November 16, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas White reuters_tickers This content was published on August 4, 2021 - 07:28 August 4, 2021 - 07:28 SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore aims to have more than 200,000 police cameras by at least 2030, Minister for Home Affairs K Shanmugam said on Tuesday, over double the current number of cameras deployed across the island state. With...

Thai hospital tycoon who promised Pfizer vaccine says deal now unlikely 08/04/2021 7:10 BANGKOK (Reuters) - The chair of Thailands Thonburi Healthcare Group (THG) said on Wednesday that a deal to import 20 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was unlikely to happen, despite his earlier claims that a deal was close. Thailand is battling its biggest COVID-19 outbreak yet, and has been racing to secure vaccines. Last month, THG Chairman Boon Vanasin said talks to clinch a dea...

Article content JAKARTA — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)’s recently-appointed special envoy to Myanmar will have “full access to all parties” in the country and will report to a foreign ministers meeting in September, Indonesia said on Wednesday. Sidharto R. Suryodipuro, a foreign ministry official, also told a news conference that the recently issued communique should not be seen as an acknowledgment of the Myanmar junta. We apologize, but this video has failed to l...