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Over 2.3 million students in Hanoi will get an 8-day Tet break this year, the same as last year. The Hanoi People’s Committee on Tuesday approved the Tet break for students to from Feb. 7 to 14. The Lunar New Year, Vietnam’s biggest holiday, peaks on Feb. 10 this year. …

A man died in a house fire in HCMC’s District 12 on Wednesday as three other people managed to escape. Flames and smokes came out from the first floor of a three-story house on Le Van Khuong Street, Hiep Thanh Ward at around 2:30 a.m., when there were four people …

Police in Gia Lai Province have identified a man who later committed suicide as the main suspect in setting fire to an apartment that killed three people on Tuesday. The fire engulfed the rented apartment spanning 20 m2 in the Central Highlands province at around 2 a.m. Dozens of police …

More than 1,800 night flights, equivalent to 8% of the total number of domestic flights, will be operated from Jan. 21 to Feb. 25 to meet the increasing travel demand during the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday. The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) issued a document allowing night flights …

Police in the northern Nam Dinh Province have identified seven youths aged 15-18 as the main suspects who assaulted and killed an 18-year-old boy. They are 18-year-old Vu Anh Duc, Vu Tuan Phat, Nguyen Dai Tuan, and Cao Xuan Truong, 15-year-old Cao Huy Hoan and Do Quoc Khanh, and Nguyen …

Laborers residing in eight districts and towns in northern and central Vietnam are now eligible to register for a program to work in South Korea. They are Chi Linh Town of the northern Hai Duong Province, Dong Son and Hoang Hoa districts in central Thanh Hoa Province, Cam Xuyen and …

President Joe Biden was kept in the dark over his defense secretary’s cancer diagnosis and subsequent hospitalizations for about a month, the White House admitted Tuesday, as details of Lloyd Austin’s deeply unusual disappearance raised questions about leadership of the world’s top military. The 70-year-old’s failure to disclose his hospitalization …

Boeing Chief Executive Dave Calhoun took responsibility for a near-catastrophic Alaska Airlines incident Tuesday, vowing “complete transparency” as the aviation giant tries to pivot from its latest crisis. “We’re going to approach this number one acknowledging our mistake,” Calhoun told employees at a safety meeting called after Friday’s emergency landing, …

Vung Tau authorities want to build eight tunnels leading straight to its most popular beach, Bai Sau (Back Beach). Each tunnel will span 10-15 m wide underneath Thuy Van Street in the city center, chairman Nguyen Trong Thuy told a meeting on Tuesday. Of the tunnels, five will be built …

The Ministry of Education and Training is to recognize the Pearson English International Certificate (PEIC) as equivalent to the six-level foreign language proficiency framework used in Vietnam. The new recognition means that in addition to certificates such as IELTS or TOEFL, PEIC will now also be used for university admission. …