Over 6 million people across the country have been vaccinated against Covid-19 with over 3 million given second jab and over 3.6 million given first dose as of Nov 19, shows data of the Centre of Information and Education for Health, Ministry of Healt…
Laos has logged 999 new cases, detected among 4,793 people tested for Covid-19, and one new death attributed to the deadly virus over the past 24 hours, according to the National Taskforce Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control.Of the new confir…
President Thongloun Sisoulith on Nov 22 took part in the ASEAN-China Special Summit to Commemorate the 30th Anniversary of ASEAN-China Dialogue Relations via a video conference.Chaired by Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei and Chinese President Xi…
U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday reappointed Jerome Powell to a second term as chair of the country’s central bank, the Federal Reserve, saying that Powell has played a pivotal role in helping the United States recover from the worst of the economic …
A Sydney restaurant is using a Chinese-made, multi-lingual hospitality robot to address chronic staff shortages as Australia’s economy begins to recover from COVID-19 lockdowns and border closures.The robot waiter is programmed to know the layout of th…
As coronavirus infections hit Ukraine, a single shift for Dr. Oleksandr Molchanov now stretches to 42 hours — 24 of them in Kakhovka’s hospital, followed by another 18 hours spent visiting tents set up to care for 120 COVID-19 patients.While vaccinatio…
The top U.S. infectious disease expert on Sunday urged millions of Americans who already are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to get booster shots “to optimize their status.”To date, 34.5 million of the 196 million fully vaccinated people in the Unite…
On a recent afternoon, Tina Singh watched nearly a dozen students at a suburban Los Angeles truck-driving school backing up their practice vehicles into parking spaces. Many had never operated a manual transmission before.”It’s an exciting time to be a…
President Joe Biden’s signature Build Back Better package of climate and social spending passed the House of Representatives on Friday morning, 220-213, less than 24 hours after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) produced an analysis of the legislat…
A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel Friday voted unanimously to make COVID-19 vaccine booster shots available to those 18 and older. The CDC also said those older than 50 should get a booster.The move comes after the U.S. F…
A chemical that babies give off from their heads calms men but makes women more aggressive, according to new research in the journal Science Advances.It could be a chemical defense system we inherited from our animal ancestors, the authors speculate, m…
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the National University of Laos organized a two-day training for 20 youth volunteers under the “Me, My Body, My Planet, My Future” campaign.The training aimed to build capacities of these youth volunteers …
