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Hanoi to allow grade 1-6 students back in school this week

Almost one million students from first to sixth grades in all 30 districts of Hanoi will resume in-person classes from Wednesday. According to a decision made Monday by the city’s administration following a previous proposal by the Department of Education, kindergarten students will remain home. In its proposal, the Education …

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Vietnam to roll out vaccine passports starting April 15

Vietnam will begin issuing vaccine passports starting April 15, the Health Ministry announced Monday. A representative from the ministry’s Department of Information Technology said localities would confirm people’s vaccination status starting April 8, and vaccine passports would be available starting April 15. “People won’t have vaccine passports if either their …

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Singaporeans protest the death penalty in rare demonstration

Singaporeans protest the death penalty in rare demonstration

Hundreds of protesters in tightly controlled Singapore staged a rare demonstration against the death penalty Sunday as fears grow the city-state is set to carry out a wave of hangings. Authorities last week conducted the country’s first execution since 2019 when they hanged a drug trafficker. Several other death row …

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Vietnam confirms over 102,000 new Covid-19 cases

The Health Ministry announced 102,046 domestic Covid-19 patients in 61 cities and provinces Sunday, including 51,316 detected on previous days in the northern Thai Binh and Bac Giang provinces. Most of the new cases were detected Thai Binh (41,725), followed by Bac Giang (13,819) and Hanoi (6,304). In the past …

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HCMC one of the loudest places on earth: UN report

The southern metropolis of HCMC has been ranked the fourth noisiest city in the world in a United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) report. The “Frontiers 2022: Noise, Blazes and Mismatches” report ranks 61 cities in total: 13 from South Asia, 10 from Europe, 10 from West Asia, 11 from East …

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