Author: Chalong Tantasatityanon

Religious leaders in Myanmar (also known as Burma), have launched a “passionate appeal for peace, urging that all of us need to undertake the pilgrimage of peace.” The appeal, signed by the three Metropolitan Archbishops of the country, recalls the “great threats to the sacredness of human life, the lives lost, the lives displaced, and the lives under starvation.” A heart-wrenching tragedyThe southeast Asian nation has suffered a series of political, social, and economic crises, and has descended into a spiral of violence since the 2021 military coup that overthrew the democratically elected government. Thousands of people have subsequently been…

Hanoi (VNA) – In continuation of moving their production hubs, this year many of the giants in the world of technology and electronics have announced business expansion plans in Vietnam. Recently, Apple revealed that it will move its MacBook production chain to Vietnam in 2023. It has asked Foxconn, its biggest supplier, to launch a MacBook production chain in Vietnam from May this year, while making plans to produce Mac Pro in Vietnam. In 2025, about 20% of the total number of iPads and Apple Watches will be produced in Vietnam, along with 5% of the MacBook and 65% of…

HCM CITY — A new variant of Omicron called XBB has been detected in HCM City. The COVID-19 sub-variant was reported in December last year and only accounts for a small share of positive cases, according to a COVID-19 research team of the Hồ Chí Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases and the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit. During the second half of 2022, the southern city reported mostly Omicron and Delta cases. There was a shift from BA.5 of Omicron to BA.2.75 (including BN.1) in the fourth quarter of last year, which was in line with the overall trend…

Provincial officials delay media briefing and official apologizes, says it was accident A Vietnamese party official has gotten into hot water for allegedly hitting a caddy with a golf club on the course, knocking her unconscious. Provincial officials postponed a scheduled news conference scheduled to discuss the allegations against Nguyen Viet Dung, a member of the Quang Nang Provincial People’s Council, which include threats that he made to the staff at the BRG Dang Nang golf course on Dec. 6, according to local media. The reports said that during the game, Dung thought the 32-year-old caddy had dishonestly counted the…