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The director of Hanoi’s CDC and some of its staff accepted bribes to let a local firm distribute its Covid-19 test kits at inflated prices, the police have alleged. Truong Quang Viet, the chief of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and Le Thi Bich Tuyen, head of its …

The northeastern region will get heavy rainfall during the weekend as tropical storm Chaba approaches and makes landfall over China. According to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, at around 10 a.m. on Saturday the storm lay centered 310 km east-southeast of Quang Ninh Province, home to Ha Long Bay, …

Thousands of people lined up for hours Friday at passport offices in Hanoi and HCMC as they resumed issuance after a month of suspension for “non-urgent” purposes. Since morning people lined up outside the Ho Chi Minh City Immigration Office in District 3 and the Immigration Department in District 1 …

New York lawmakers were voting on gun laws on Friday that would ban weapons from a long list of “sensitive places,” including Times Square, and require people who want a gun license to get more training and submit their social media accounts to government review. The emergency legislative session began …

The number of people traveling by car and airplane for the Fourth of July holiday is expected to climb near pre-pandemic levels, a test for U.S. airlines that have struggled with inadequate staffing and flight cancellations this summer. The easing of Covid restrictions and bottled-up travel demand are translating into …

India imposed a ban on many single-use plastics on Friday in a bid to tackle waste choking rivers and poisoning wildlife, but experts say it faces severe headwinds from unprepared manufacturers and consumers unwilling to pay more. The country generates around four million tonnes of plastic waste per year, about …

French President Emmanuel Macron told new Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese he wanted to focus on the future as they try to rebuild relations badly strained by his predecessor’s decision to ditch a submarine contract with Paris. Relations between the two Western allies reached a low last October when Australia …

The International School Ho Chi Minh City (ISHCMC) has been acknowledged as one of the leading international schools globally in Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant Commemorative Album. “Her Majesty The Queen: The Official Platinum Jubilee Pageant Commemorative Album,” which was launched on June 5 by publisher St James’s House …

An international port worth $6 billion has been proposed for Ho Chi Minh City’s outlying district of Can Gio to meet rising shipment demand. In a statement sent to Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Thursday, HCMC Chairman Phan Van Mai said the city has received a proposal from Terminal …

Spain has recently arrested two Vietnamese citizens over sexual assault allegations on a 17-year-old girl from the U.K., Spanish police confirmed Friday. “Two Vietnamese males have been arrested by police of Mallorca Island over sexual assault allegations. One was born in 1980, the other in 1984,” said a spokesman of …