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Border guards conduct more patrols along border paths. * Previously, youth union members of Lao Cai High School No.1 and Criminal Police Division of the provincial Police Department visited and presented gifts, worth VND 20 million, including 100 packages of instant noodles, 100 boxes of canned meat and some other necessities, to border guard troops at four border checkpoints under the Border Guard Station of the Lao Cai International Border Gate. … [Read more...] about Military units active in preventing COVID-19

Medical supplies presented to the Lao troops With the complicated development of the COVID-19 pandemic and the increasing number of COVID-19 cases in Laos, the border guard forces of Laos set up 12 border checkpoints along the shared border with Vietnam to prevent the disease. … [Read more...] about Medical supplies presented to Lao border troops

At the end of the race, the pachyderms lift their trunks above their heads to wave to the viewers, walk deliberately flapping their ears gently, gazing through half-closed eyes to receive sugarcane from the crowds. The winning elephant gets a laurel wreath, and sugar cane and bananas from the festival-goers. The elephants then participate in a swimming competition across the Serepok River, in tug-of-wars, throwing balls and playing football. … [Read more...] about Elephant Race Festival in the Central Highlands

Saudi Arabia, which holds the group's rotating presidency, said the ministers and bank governors will convene for the second time to "advance a coordinated global response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its human and economic implications". US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin joined the emergency summit chaired by Saudi Arabia's King Salman, who called for coordinated action while facing pressure to end an oil price war between Riyadh and Moscow that has roiled energy markets. The talks came after criticism that the G20 has been slow to address the COVID-19 pandemic, which has left more than 37,500 dead worldwide and triggered financial shock waves as some two-fifths of the globe's population is put under lockdown. The $5 trillion figure is the sum total of the fiscal stimulus packages adopted by individual G20 states, the Chinese foreign ministry said, adding that Beijing's share amounted to $344 billion. As concerns mount for poorer countries without … [Read more...] about G20 finance ministers to hold virtual talks on coronavirus crisis

Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong on Monday appealed to compatriots, comrades and soldiers nationwide and overseas Vietnamese to stay united in their will and actions in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. … [Read more...] about Top Vietnamese leader urges solidarity against COVID-19