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Some 40,590 people were fined for drunk driving in the last month after year-end parties, the Traffic Police Department said. At 1 p.m. on Wednesday, four officers from the Hanoi Police’s Traffic Police Team No. 6 set up a checkpoint at Tran Thai Tong Street, Cau Giay District. One of …

The state-run Vietnam Expressway Corporation (VEC) has asked related units to find another contractor for a bridge project on the longest expressway in southern Vietnam. Writing to the Ministry of Transport recently, VEC suggested the ministry work with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the investor in the Phuoc Khanh …

Some 40,590 people were fined for drunk drinking in the last month after year-end parties, the Traffic Police Department said. At 1 p.m. on Wednesday, four officers from the Hanoi Police’s Traffic Police Team No. 6 set up a checkpoint at Tran Thai Tong Street, Cau Giay District. One of …

Hong Kong said it will no longer require people infected with Covid-19 to quarantine from January 30, removing one of the last major coronavirus restrictions in place in the Asian financial hub. The scrapping of the isolation requirements is part of a decision to downgrade Covid-19’s status to an endemic …

A motorcyclist who drove straight into a traffic police officer who flagged him down in Phu Yen Province in central Vietnam has been arrested. Nguyen Minh Lam, 22, now faces “murder” charges. He was driving in Tuy An District late at night on January 15 when officer Nguyen Manh Hung, …

China’s relaxation of its Covid-19 restrictions will spur trade and other exchanges with Vietnam, according to Chinese ambassador to Vietnam Xiong Bo. “Normalizing procedures at the border between the two countries will help with the exporting of high-quality products from Vietnam to China, especially agricultural ones,” Xiong said. Chinese ambassador …

Microsoft Corp on Wednesday said it would eliminate 10,000 jobs and take a $1.2 billion charge to earnings, as its cloud-computing customers reassess their spending and the company braces for potential recession. The layoffs add to the tens of thousands announced in recent months across the technology sector, which has …

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will not seek re-election and plans to step down no later than early February, she said in a televised statement on Thursday. A general election would be held on October 14, she added. “This summer, I had hoped to find a way to prepare …

A 46-year-old man in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak was rescued Wednesday after spending four days stuck down a well. Y Son Adrong was found after police in Dray Bhang Commune received reports that a motorbike had been abandoned for days near a corn field in Kim Chau …

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