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After the graves are removed from Binh Hung Hoa Cemetery in Ho Chi Minh City, the land should be used to build schools and parks, Binh Tan District officials have proposed. Writing to the HCMC administration recently, district officials argued against a previous plan which said that part of the …

Lisa Marie Presley, a musician and the only daughter of rock ‘n’ roll legend Elvis Presley, died on Thursday after being rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital, her mother said. “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has …

Residents of China are increasingly on the move after the country’s sudden reversal last month of heavy Covid-19 curbs, despite a surge in infections, pointing to a gradual recovery in consumption and economic activity this year. Mobility and spending data — from subway passenger traffic in three of China’s biggest …

U.S. consumer prices fell for the first time in more than 2-1/2 years in December as gasoline and motor vehicles prices declined, offering hope that inflation was now on a sustained downward trend, though the labor market remains tight. Americans also got more relief at the supermarket last month, with …

HCMC healthcare authorities have 10,000 hospital beds on standby as a precaution amid the appearance of new Covid-19 variants. The Department of Health said that of the 10,000 beds 1,000 would be for intensive care. As the highly infectious XBB subvariant of Omicron has been detected in the southern metropolis, …

Officers found a total of 6kg of drugs on four passenger buses entering Vietnam at the Lao Bao border gate in the central province of Quang Tri this week. Customs and police forces have arrested eight Vietnamese people, whose identities are still unclear, for smuggling the drugs from Laos. On …

As year-end travel demands rise, more and more people are getting duped on social media by fake flight tickets that cost thousands of U.S. dollars. Kim Tuyen, a 29-year-old office worker in HCMC, planned to fly back to her hometown in the central province of Quang Nam this Tet. On …

Former head of the government office Mai Tien Dung was recommended to be disciplined by the Central Inspection Commission of the Communist Party in a Thursday press release. Also in the release, the Central Inspection Commission issued a warning for the Standing Party Committee of the Government Office and the …

Vietnam’s Transport Ministry will carry out five projects within the first quarter to upgrade the North-South railway at a cost of VND5 trillion ($213 million). Of the projects that have been planned, three will renovate railway sections from Hanoi – Vinh, which stretches 319km long, Vinh – Nha Trang (995km), …

A HCMC university has denied information shared on Facebook that one of its female students was raped while undergoing military classes. On Wednesday night, social media was ablaze with posts that a female student at the HCMC University of Foreign Languages and Information Technology (HUFLIT) was raped while undergoing military …