Vice Governor of Bokeo Province Khamphaya Phompanya has called on people in the province to receive all required doses of Covid-19 vaccine to ensure herd immunity.So far Bokeo has received 164,800 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine. More than 82,700 people,…
Mayor of Kaysone Phomvihane City, Savannakhet Province, Pasongsin Chaleunsouk issued a notice on Aug 9 placing the city under lockdown from Aug 9-23 following the sharp rise in Covid-19 infections in the province.An assessment jointly conducted by Kays…
The National Taskforce Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control has reported 315 new cases of Covid-19 over the past twenty-four hours with 301 infections classified as imported cases – returning workers from neigbouring countries – and 14 as loc…
JERUSALEM – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has just added Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to its list of places where travel is not recommended because of growing rates of COVID-19. On Monday, for the first time since February, Israel do…
Forecasters with the U.S. National Hurricane Center say a weather system in the southern Caribbean and moving toward Puerto Rico is likely to become a tropical storm. In its latest report, the center said its parent agency, the National Oceanic and At…
The aerospace company Boeing said Monday it could still test launch its Starliner crew capsule this month. The company had canceled a scheduled launch of the craft last week. Boeing issued a statement Monday saying it was working on the problem that caused a prelaunch check to indicate an “unexpected valve position” in the spacecraft’s…
A cruise ship line is now free to require proof of coronavirus vaccination from passengers in Florida. A U.S. federal judge granted Norwegian Cruise Line a preliminary injunction Sunday that enables the line to ask passengers for their vaccine status. “We welcome today’s ruling that allows us to sail with 100% fully vaccinated guests and…
Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, his spouse Tran Nguyet Thu, and a high-ranking delegation of the Vietnamese Party and State arrived in Vientiane this morning for a two-day official friendship visit to Laos at the invitation of Secretary General of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) Central Committee and President of Thongloun Sisoulith. The visiting…
The National Taskforce Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control has recorded 170 new cases of Covid-19 today with 149 cases classified as imported infections and 21 as community infections. Of the imported cases, 71 cases were reported in Champassak, 44 in Vientiane, 25 in Saravan, 7 in Khammuan and 2 in Savannakhet. The local transmissions…
BERLIN – Two spacecraft are set to swoop past Venus within hours of each other this week, using the maneuver to do a little bit of bonus science on the way to their main missions at the center of our solar system. The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter probe, a cooperation with NASA, will swing…
A New York Times report says as the coronavirus swept across the U.S., more than 1 million children, many of them in poor neighborhoods, failed to show up for public school classes, either online or in person. The steepest decline the report said was among kindergarten students. The newspaper said more than 340,000 kindergarten children…
TOKYO – The official price tag for the Tokyo Olympics in $15.4 billion, which a University of Oxford study says is the most expensive on record. What else could those billions buy? The ballpark figure for building a 300-bed hospital in Japan is $55 million. So you could put up almost 300 of these. The…
