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The HCMC education department has decided to bring in the police to investigate a fight between two girl students of the International School HCMC-American Academy last month. Speaking at a city meeting on Friday, Ho Tan Minh, chief of staff of the city Department of Education and Training, said the …

Several localities have chosen not to receive Covid-19 vaccine batches or have requested that they be sent elsewhere as residents don’t want to get vaccinated further. Nguyen Cong Luat with the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology said Wednesday that Hanoi, Hai Duong and Thanh Hoa have refused to receive …

Germany must work harder to reduce its energy-dependence on Russia but Western sanctions in response to Moscow’s attacks in Ukraine are still taking a heavy toll on Russia, German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said on Thursday. “The Russian economy is collapsing,” Habeck told lawmakers, adding that Germany had played its …

South Korea’s prime minister on Friday said the country will lift its quarantine requirement for foreign arrivals without vaccination from June 8 and also start lifting aviation regulations imposed for international flights. However, the government will maintain the requirement of a negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test result prior to …

The Biden administration is considering “all options” as it reviews potential changes to U.S. duties on Chinese imports, including tariff relief and new trade investigations in a shift of focus to strategic concerns with Beijing, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Sarah Bianchi said on Thursday. Bianchi told Reuters in an interview …

Three endangered moon bears were rescued from illegal trafficking and captivity in northern Vietnam’s Dien Bien Province on Wednesday. Authorities checked the motorbike of 52-year-old Lo Van Bua in Phu Luong Commune that night and found a carton with two bear cubs, each weighing four kilograms. Bua said he had …

Britain celebrates the second day of Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee on Friday, with the highlight a service of thanksgiving attended by senior royals and politicians that the 96-year-old monarch herself will miss due to ongoing mobility issues. The four days of events kicked off on Thursday, when a happy-looking Elizabeth …

Declaring “Enough, enough!” U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday urged Congress to ban assault weapons, expand background checks and implement other sensible gun control measures to address a string of mass shootings that have struck the United States. Speaking from the White House, in a speech broadcast live in primetime, …

Hanoi’s iconic Long Bien Bridge would undergo a complete evaluation in the next two-three months prior to its reparation, according to the Vietnam Railway Authority. Tran Thien Canh, deputy head of the authority, on Thursday said a plan to evaluate Long Bien Bridge has been prepared. The 120-year-old bridge has …

Ho Chi Minh City wants to have a special mechanism that grants it greater autonomy to be continued after a pilot period ends this year. In November 2017, Vietnam’s economic hub HCMC was granted extra autonomous decision-making power to help it develop to its full potential as per Resolution 54 …