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Vietnam’s Central Highlands will commence three more expressway projects to boost its socio-economic development. Stretching more than 201 kilometers (125 miles), Dau Giay – Lien Khuong Expressway will run from southern Dong Nai Province that borders Ho Chi Minh City to Lam Dong Province in the Central Highlands, home to …

The HCMC police are looking into the roles of several people who allegedly helped a businesswoman make accusations against various celebrities on live-streamed Facebook videos. It is part of their investigation into Nguyen Phuong Hang, general director of Dai Nam Joint Stock Company in southern Binh Duong Province, but it …

China’s financial hub of Shanghai launched a planned two-stage lockdown of the city of 26 million people on Monday, closing bridges and tunnels, and restricting highway traffic in a scramble to contain surging local Covid-19 cases. The snap lockdown, announced by Shanghai’s city government on Sunday, will split the city …

Ukraine is prepared to discuss adopting a neutral status as part of a peace deal with Russia but such a pact would have to be guaranteed by third parties and put to a referendum, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in remarks aired on Sunday. Zelenskiy was speaking to Russian journalists …

The Philippine Coast Guard has accused its Chinese counterpart of steering one of its ships within meters of a Filipino patrol vessel in the disputed South China Sea, breaking international rules and risking a collision. The incident happened on March 2 near the contested Scarborough Shoal — one of the …

According to a survey by ITviec, candidates with proficient skills in JavaScript, Java, and Node.js will be the most searched for by employers in 2022. According to a report from the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC), the information and communication technology (ICT) industry generated $136.2 billion in revenue by …

Vietnam recorded 91,916 new local Covid-19 cases on Sunday, bringing the infection tally in the fourth wave to over 8.93 million cases. The three localities with the highest numbers of cases are Hanoi with 10,252 cases, Bac Giang with 3,997 cases and Yen Bai with 3,977 cases. 48 deaths were …

Hong Kong said on Sunday it is shortening the ban on airlines that are found to have carried three or more passengers who test positive for Covid-19 upon arrival, as the number of local cases continues to ease from its peak. Starting on Friday, the ban on individual airline routes …

It is 90 percent complete, but contractual and payment issues have caused a HCMC VND10 trillion ($437.3 million) anti-flooding project to miss its completion deadline for four years. The project aims to manage high tide flooding and respond to climate change effects over an area to the right of the …

A VND18.6 trillion ($813.5 million) highway project connecting HCMC, and the Mekong Delta provinces of Long An and Tien Giang has been approved by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh. The National Highway 50B is part of a traffic network planning scheme for the 2021-2030 period (with vision until 2050), director …