HANOI, Vietnam—At least 14 people died in a fire that broke out at a karaoke parlor in southern Vietnam, local media reported Wednesday. At least 40 other people were injured in the fire at the four-story venue in Thuan An city in the province of Binh Duong that began at about 9 p.m. Tuesday, trapping…

China’s fear of COVID-19 reached new heights when the city of Shanghai put members of a WeChat group into home quarantine for at least seven days amid a recent COVID-19 outbreak. The city of 26 million reported 74 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases from July 3 to July 6 that were related to a karaoke bar…

SHANGHAI—The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will establish a blacklist of karaoke songs to ban those containing “illegal content” at karaoke venues across the country starting from Oct. 1, its Ministry of Culture and Tourism said on Tuesday. Such content includes that which endangers “national unity” under the party’s totalitarian rule, sovereignty or territorial integrity, violates…