The northern province of Hai Duong has ordered its provincial and district-level Steering Committees for COVID-19 Prevention and Control to tighten management of concentrated quarantine centres, lockdown areas and COVID-19 hospitals to prevent cross transmission.
The capital city of Hanoi has ordered the closure of streetside stalls, monuments, temples and pagodas from February 16 to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Competent agencies in Hanoi are working urgently and drastically to screen F1 and F2 cases of a COVID-19-infected Japanese man who was found dead from unknown causes at a local hotel on February 13.
Vietnam recorded one imported COVID-19 case on February 15 morning, raising the total count in the country to 2,229, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
Countries in Southeast Asia are taking drastic actions in response to the COVID-19 outbreak as they have confirmed more infected cases over the last few days.
The Cambodian Government has planned new measures to tackle the financial effect of COVID-19 since January, the Khmer Times reported, quoting General Secretary of the Ministry of Economy and Finance Meas Soksensan.
Cambodia’s Ministry of Health on March 5 urged those who had close contact with a Japanese man infected with the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 to urgently seek for health tests.
The Tokyo High Court on January 31 began the second hearing in an appeal trial against a lower court ruling that sentenced a Japanese man to life in prison over the murder of a Vietnamese girl in 2017.
The Tokyo High Court on September 26 began hearing an appeal against a lower court ruling that sentenced a Japanese man to life in prison over the murder of a Vietnamese girl in 2017.
Japanese prosecutors have demanded a death penalty for Yasumasa Shibuya, a Japanese man who has been accused of murdering a 9-year-old Vietnamese girl in Chiba prefecture on March 24 last year.
Independent female director Cao Thuy Nhi’s feature film on love, Nham Mat Thay Mua He (Snow in Summer), will be released in Hokkaido, Japan on April 6.
A Japanese man was arrested in Indonesia on May 19 for trying to smuggle hundreds of reptiles out of the country, including snakes, lizards and turtles.
Nearly 8 movies and 21 short films on Vietnam will be screened at the
Viet Film Fest (VFF), during April 10-13 at the UltraLuxe Cinemas,
Anaheim GardenWalk, California, US.
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