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Military helicopters airlifted hundreds of people from communities cut off by “once in a century” floods in Australia’s northwest, an official leading relief efforts said on Sunday, noting water covered some places “as far as the eye could see”. The crisis in the Kimberley – an sparsely populated area in …

Residents of a deteriorating apartment building are refusing to leave their homes and move to a new building as they do not know how much they will be compensated for their loss. The three-floor building, located at 440 Tran Hung Dao Street in Ho Chi HCMC’s District 5, which was …

Colorful fireworks displays will blast off from six Ho Chi Minh City locations at 12 a.m. Lunar New Year’s day January 22 after a two-year covid hiatus. Each fifteen-minute show will be held in a different district, said Deputy Head of the HCMC Culture and Sports Department Vo Trong Nam …

After a three-year Covid hiatus, immigration at the Mong Cai International Border Gate connecting Vietnam and China resumed at 8 a.m. Sunday. Thousands of Chinese citizens in Vietnam gathered at the border gate in Quang Ninh Province to cross into their home country. Over 1,000 crossed in the first two …

The northern port city of Hai Phong has begun construction of a VND2.5 trillion ($106.52 million) administrative center to host different government agencies, according to local authorities. The center in the suburban district of Thuy Nguyen will consist of 14 units; two of them will have 15 floors. The project …

Hundreds of Tesla owners gathered at the automaker’s showrooms and distribution centres in China over the weekend, demanding rebates and credit after sudden price cuts they said meant they had overpaid for electric cars they bought earlier. On Saturday, about 200 recent buyers of the Tesla Model Y and Model …

China on Saturday marked the first day of “chun yun”, the 40-day period of Lunar New Year travel known pre-pandemic as the world’s largest annual migration of people, bracing for a huge increase in travellers and the spread of Covid-19 infections. This Lunar New Year public holiday, which officially runs …

Seventeen people were killed and 22 were injured Sunday in a road traffic accident in eastern China’s Jiangxi province, state media reported. “The accident caused 17 deaths, 22 people were injured, the injured have been sent to the hospital,” state broadcaster CCTV reported, citing local authorities. The “major road traffic …

Twitter Inc made further staff cuts in the trust and safety team handling global content moderation and in the unit related to hate speech and harassment, Bloomberg news reported on Saturday. At least a dozen more cuts on Friday night affected workers in the company’s Dublin and Singapore offices, the …

The surge in travel during the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday and relaxed travel policies of some countries could result in more Covid-19 infections, the Ministry of Health warned. “With the new reopening policies of countries in the region, the number of Covid-19 cases from abroad will increase in the …