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Kindergarteners and primary school students may stay home if air quality indexes prove to be hazardous for three days straight, the Health Environment Management Agency proposed. The proposal was made amid poor air quality levels in certain localities which have negatively impacted people’s health. Air quality in Hanoi was often …

Completing 200 km of metro lines in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City within 12 years is an “impossible mission” without special mechanisms, such as issuing bonds to raise funds, experts have said. As per a conclusion of the Politburo, the decision-making body in the Communist Party of Vietnam, on …

A Slovak man has been imprisoned for trying to bring a Vietnamese woman from France to the U.K. by hiding her in his car. Jozef Balog, 33, was sentenced to two and a half years behind bars by a court for assisting unlawful immigration, on Jan. 16, the U.K. Embassy …

The winner of Japan’s most prestigious literary award has acknowledged that about “five percent” of her futuristic novel was penned by ChatGPT, saying generative AI had helped unlock her potential. Since the 2022 launch of ChatGPT, an easy-to-use AI chatbot that can deliver an essay upon request within seconds, there …

Police in the southern Ba Ria – Vung Tau Province have arrested a man who burned the national flag and filmed it for a social media post. Pham Cong Hung Nhan, 43, is now under investigation for insulting the national flag as per the Criminal Code, police said Monday. According …

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday she was “scared as heck” that Donald Trump would return to the White House in the November election and urged Democrats to “fight back.” Her comments came after Trump stormed to victory on Monday in the Iowa caucuses, the first step in the …

Ho Chi Minh City Dermatology Hospital received over 600 cases of cosmetic dermatology complications last year, an increase of more than 1.5 times compared to four years ago. The number of complications related to cosmetic procedures has been increasing annually, except for the pandemic year of 2021, Nguyen Thi Phan …

Police of the southern province of Binh Duong, in coordination with Chinese police, arrested a Chinese national on the international wanted list for human trafficking on Jan. 17. Liu Peiguang, 34, is being investigated in a human trafficking case by public security authorities in Liaocheng City, China’s Shandong Province. Investigation …

Singapore’s prime minister announced on Thursday the resignation of his transport chief after he was charged with 27 offenses in a corruption probe that has also ensnared a billionaire hotel tycoon. Transport Minister S. Iswaran was arrested in July of 2023 and released on bail in connection with a rare …

Donald Trump was threatened with expulsion from his Manhattan civil trial Wednesday after he repeatedly ignored a warning to keep quiet while writer E. Jean Carroll testified that he shattered her reputation after she accused him of sexual abuse. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan told the former president that his right …