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Thirteen police officers in HCMC’s Tan Phu District face prosecution for taking money to release suspects detained for peddling, trafficking and using banned substances. City police said Wednesday said they have completed investigating the case and passed relevant documents to prosecutors, recommending that charges of “abuse of power or position …

The U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, John Kerry, has expressed high appreciation for Vietnam’s COP26 commitments and reaffirmed his nation’s pledge to assist with this effort. Kerry’s reaffirmation came in talks held with Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc in Hanoi, a foreign ministry press release said Wednesday. Kerry, who …

The token value of an unreleased Vietnamese NFT game has almost doubled following a cryptic tweet by famous U.S. entrepreneur Elon Musk. The official Twitter account of Musk posted Tuesday a tweet which read “tau > pi.” It had received over 33,800 likes and been retweeted 3,384 times as of …

The United States is poised to unleash a wider array of sanctions against Russia if Moscow escalates the conflict in Ukraine, denying key Russian financial institutions and companies access to U.S. dollar transactions and global markets for trade, energy exports and financing. read more But the United States and its …

The Health Ministry announced 60,338 new domestic Covid-19 patients Wednesday in 62 cities and provinces. Most of the new cases were detected in Hanoi, at 7,419, followed by the northern provinces of Bac Giang (2,998 cases) and Hai Duong (2,944). The average single-day cases nationwide in the last seven days …

More and more elderly people have fallen sick due to the cold weather in several northern Vietnam localities. Last Sunday, Huu Nghi Hospital in Hanoi received a 73-year-old woman with a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart failure, and adrenal insufficiency. She was taken to hospital suffering respiratory difficulties. …

Eighteen civilians were killed when their transport vehicle came under attack in a part of western Niger frequently targeted by Islamist militants, the government said on Tuesday. Interior Minister Alkassoum Indatou attributed Sunday’s attack in the Tillaberi region, near the border with Mali, to “armed bandits, aboard several motorcycles, who …

Hong Kong will offer tax breaks, handouts and subsidies to small businesses and residents, to mitigate the impact of the most stringent social restrictions imposed in the city to curb the spread of Covid-19, Finance Secretary Paul Chan said. The 2022/23 budget proposals were announced as hundreds of bars, restaurants …

The price of Covid-19 test kits across the country has significantly jumped compared to before Tet, causing local shortages amid an ongoing coronavirus surge. On Tuesday, the largest drugstore on Vu Trong Phung Street in Hanoi’s Thanh Xuan District was packed with people, even though the store only allows sellers …

A brightly decorated wooden trolley rumbles down a little-used rail track in the southern Philippines carrying four young teachers, two on the front and two in the back pushing it along with their feet. Kitted out with a whiteboard, colourful charts, and a stack of books, the tiny, mobile school …