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A cold front is set to blanket northern Vietnam from January 15 to 29, which includes the Lunar New Year holiday, plunging average daytime temperatures to below 15 degrees Celsius. Nguyen Van Huong, head of the weather forecast department at the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, said the cold front …

Public-private partnerships in healthcare are required to ease the financial burden on public hospitals and policies should be framed to enable this, the HCMC Department of Health has said. The policies should allow private investors to build a second campus for existing public hospitals while the city could staff them, …

Airlines have boosted January international seat capacity to and from China by 9.5% over the last week as they ramp up flights after its border opening, according to aviation data provider Cirium, though flights remain at a fraction of pre-pandemic levels. Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd added more than …

Tens of millions of Californians faced another bout of heavy downpours, high winds and flooding on Monday after the relentless weather over the last 10 days killed 12 people and left many thousands without power. Most of California’s 39 million residents could expect heavy rainfall of up to five inches …

An improperly attached steel coil being transported on a tractor-trailer rolled over and crushed the truck’s cabin in Dong Nai Province when the vehicle stopped suddenly last week. The trailer’s driver braked hard at a red light as the vehicle sped along National Highway 51 in the southern province last …

The human trafficker responsible for the death of 39 Vietnamese on a U.K. truck in 2019 has been ordered to compensate the victims’ families with over £180,000 ($218,747). Ronan Hughes, 43, who is currently serving a jail sentence of 20 years for manslaughter, was told by the Central Criminal Court …

People joined long queues outside immigration offices in Beijing on Monday, eager to renew their passports after China dropped Covid border controls that had largely prevented its 1.4 billion residents from travelling for three years. Sunday’s reopening is one of the last steps in China’s dismantling of its “zero-Covid” regime, …

Goldman Sachs Group will start cutting thousands of jobs across the firm from Wednesday, two sources familiar with the move said, as it prepares for a tough economic environment in the year ahead. The job cuts are expected to be just over 3,000, one of the sources said, but the …

A public bicycle sharing service will be tried out starting January 20 in six Hanoi districts, with rentals at VND5,000 (20 cents) for 30 minutes. The project will be operated by the Tri Nam Group JSC. The company started installing bicycle stations on Monday in the Ba Dinh, Tay Ho, …

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has ordered a ramping up of health screenings at the border amid the detection of an Omicron subvariant that’s more contagious and elusive in Vietnam. In a document issued Sunday, Chinh said that coronavirus variants constantly change, including an Omicron subvariant called XBB, which is …