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The HCMC health department has proposed for all foreign doctors to be fluent in Vietnamese if they want to operate in Vietnam. A representative of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health on Wednesday said the requirement for Vietnamese fluency is to minimize difficulties in exchanging information through language …

Hanoi will send 200 teachers with an IELTS score of 6.5 to go train at an Australian university for 14 days in December, the municipal People’s Committee said. The 200 teachers would be split into 10 classes and be trained in reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. They would also …

Security footage shows a five-year-old girl fighting a mugger who attacked her mother with a knife in southern Dong Nai Province. As seen in the camera footage, a woman was walking with her daughter in Thong Nhat Ward of Bien Hoa Town in Dong Nai, neighboring Ho Chi Minh City, …

Police in southern Vietnam arrested a local man after an investigation showed he had sent Vietnamese people to Russia and forced them to work illegally there. Phan Cong Quoc, 36, a resident in Soc Trang Province, is under investigation for “forcing others to illegally stay abroad” in accordance with the …

Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin died on Wednesday at the age of 96, Chinese state media reported. Jiang died from leukemia and multiple organ failure in Shanghai at 12:13 p.m., the official Xinhua news agency said. He was last seen in public on October 1, 2019, taking his place among …

A court in the central Quang Tri Province sentenced three men to death Tuesday for sending three kilograms of methamphetamine through an express delivery company. Le Ngoc Anh, 34, Nguyen Ba Chung, 27, and Nguyen Huu Loc, 25, of Dong Ha Town were found guilty of “illegal transportation of narcotic …

China’s factory activity contracted at a faster pace in November, an official survey showed on Wednesday, weighed down by Covid-19 curbs and softening global demand, underscoring the increasing pressure faced by the world’s second-largest economy. The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) stood at 48.0 against 49.2 in October, the …

SpaceX is set Wednesday to launch the first private — and Japanese — lander to the Moon. A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to blast off at 3:39 am (0839 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with a backup date on Thursday. Until now, only the United States, Russia and China …

Thousands of contracted workers have lost their jobs, mostly since the middle of this year, and hundreds of thousands of others have reduced working hours amid a demand slump. The Vietnam General Confederation of Labor said Monday those in labor-intensive businesses like textile, leather, wood, and seafood processing have been …

The U.S. Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that would protect federal recognition of same-sex marriage, a measure taken up in response to worries the Supreme Court could overturn a 2015 decision that legalized it nationwide. The narrowly tailored bill, which would require the federal government to recognize a marriage …