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Hanoi is expected to achieve all 22 targets set for this year, with growth and per capita figures surpassing them. Speaking at the People’s Council on Wednesday, its chairman, Nguyen Ngoc Tuan, said the city had faced difficulties caused by geopolitics and the Covid-19 pandemic, but adopted effective solutions. The …

Time magazine named Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky 2022’s “Person of the Year” on Wednesday, saying he inspired Ukrainians and won global accolades for his courage in resisting Russia’s attacks. Refusing to leave Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv at the outbreak of the war as Russian bombs rained down, the former comedian …

‘Gas prices today,’ ‘Storm Noru,’ and ‘Ukraine’ were the most googled news topics in Vietnam this year, according to Google’s Year in Search report released on Wednesday. When it comes to gas, users also asked why the nation was suffering from gas shortages, why gas prices were rising and why …

More than 1,100 union employees at the New York Times Co will walk out for one day on Thursday, the union said, citing the company’s “failure to bargain in good faith,” after setting a deadline for a contract last week. The union, part of the NewsGuild of New York, had …

Russian President Vladimir Putin has acknowledged that his army could be fighting in Ukraine for a long time, but for now there will be no second call-up of soldiers. Putin has rarely spoken about the likely duration of a war that he began more than nine months ago, and in …

A HCMC man was sentenced to 16 years in prison under murder charge Wednesday for killing a dog thief. On September 7 last year Lai Van Tho, 66, suspected Vo Thanh Trung and his group of friends had stolen his family’s dog and confronted the group along with his two …

The price of oil fell to its lowest level this year on Wednesday, forfeiting all of the gains since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine exacerbated the worst global energy supply crisis in decades. The world’s most actively traded commodity surged to nearly $140 a barrel in March, close to an all-time …

There are now 80 public construction sites around HCMC, many on major streets, causing traffic congestion and disrupting daily life. On the afternoon of December 1, long lines of cars and motorbikes inched little by little through a 50-meter section on Vo Van Ngan in Thu Duc City. The section …

China’s national health authority said on Wednesday that asymptomatic COVID-19 cases and people with mild symptoms can quarantine at home, in the strongest sign yet that China is preparing its people to live with the disease. Most cases of infection with the coronavirus are asymptomatic or mild with no special …

A Hanoi hospital has received at least two cases of boys being poisoned after mistakenly drinking the substance containing synthetic drugs in e-cigarettes. Vietnam National Children’s Hospital has recently saved a boy who was hospitalized after he mistakenly drank the yellow substance of an e-cigarette. Doctors initially assumed he had …