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Ron Klain, President Joe Biden’s chief of staff, predicted on Wednesday that Biden would run for re-election in 2024, in remarks as Klain prepared to step down from his role as a top White House aide. Biden, 80, has frequently expressed his intention to run for a second four-year term, …

After the Tet holiday, many factories in HCMC have boosted recruitment efforts to make up for the shortage of staff as orders have recovered. Tai Viet Camping Products Industries Co. in the Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone in District 7 is recruiting 100 laborers to increase its staff to 700. …

The United States is readying more than $2 billion worth of military aid for Ukraine that is expected to include longer-range rockets for the first time as well as other munitions and weapons, two U.S. officials briefed on the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. The aid is expected to be …

The Google homepage on Wednesday features an animated portrait of Suong Nguyet Anh, the first woman editor in Vietnam. The animated portrait of Suong Nguyet Anh on Google homepage on February 1, 2023. On February 1, 1918, Nu Gioi Chung (Women’s Bell) published its first issue, with Anh as the …

Boeing bid farewell to the iconic 747, delivering the final plane to Atlas Air on Tuesday afternoon and marking an end of an era when the first-ever “jumbo jet” ruled the skies. Thousands of Boeing employees – including some of the so-called “Incredibles” who developed the jet in the 1960s …

Protests against French President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to reform the pension system gathered momentum on Tuesday, with more than 1.27 million people in the street according to the interior ministry. The number of demonstrators increased slightly compared to a first round of protests on January 19, putting pressure on the …

Even before his onions are fully grown, Philippine farmer Luis Angeles races to harvest the crop and cash in on eye-watering prices for a vegetable that has become a luxury item in the country. Onion prices have soared in recent months, reaching as high as 800 pesos (nearly $15) a …

The White House is launching a partnership with India on Tuesday that President Joe Biden hopes will help the countries compete against China on military equipment, semiconductors and artificial intelligence. Washington wants to deploy more Western mobile phone networks in the subcontinent to counter China’s Huawei Technologies, to welcome more …

A 3-year-old boy drowned after falling into a Koi fish pond at a café in the southern province of Binh Phuoc this Tet holiday. A source from Ho Chi Minh City Children’s Hospital 2 on Tuesday said a boy was admitted to the hospital during the Tet holiday after drowning, …

Mekong Delta localities must speed up work to open 463 kilometers of new expressways in the next three years, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said Monday. “We have to be determined to improve the traffic infrastructure in the region within this government term [2021-2026], especially the expressway system,” the prime …