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Many expats are choosing to go out of cities to celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year, glad for the ‘recharge’ opportunity after the social distancing experiences of 2021. The holiday to mark the Year of the Tiger in Vietnam runs from Jan. 29 to Feb. 6, 2022, giving everyone a …

Work is set to begin on an airport in Quang Tri this year, while Tan Son Nhat, Dien Bien, Con Dao and Dong Hoi airports are set for major upgrades. A public-private-partnership is set to begin building the first airport in the central province of Quang Tri in April. The …

The Ministry of Health announced 13,656 local Covid cases Sunday, while Bac Ninh and Ben Tre provinces added over 16,000 cases detected on previous days to the database. The northern province of Bac Ninh added 12,084 cases, making it the locality with the highest number of infections in the day …

In a fit of anger with her family, a 31-year-old woman in Dak Lak Province swallowed 25 VND500,000 bank notes (worth $551.88) that had to be surgically removed. The Central Highlands General Hospital. Photo by VnExpress/Ngoc Oanh On Saturday afternoon, the woman, whose name has not been revealed, was brought …

After an 18-hour cremation ceremony, the ashes of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh were collected, placed in six ceramic urns and taken in a procession to Tu Hieu Temple.     Thich Nhat Hanh’s ashes collected Xá lợi thiền sư Thích Nhất Hạnh đưa về chùa Từ Hiếu The procession …

Beijing recorded its highest number of new Covid-19 cases for a year and a half on Sunday, as the Chinese capital gears up to host the Winter Olympics in five days. China will hold the Games in a strict “closed-loop” bubble as part of its zero-Covid strategy of targeted lockdowns, …

Thousands of Australian students return to school on Monday after a summer break, as the country remains anxious about the spread of Covid-19, which on Sunday killed at least 88 people in the country. Although some schools reopened last week, most will do so on Monday, many requiring students to …

Britain will this week begin offering vaccinations to children aged between five and 11 who are most at risk from coronavirus, the state-run National Health Service said on Sunday. Britain has been slower than some other countries in offering the shots to 5-11 year olds, and is not planning to …

A French court on Saturday (Jan 29) sentenced two Egyptian men to 22 years in jail for the murder of a transgender prostitute in a trial that has highlighted rising violence against sex workers in France. Vanesa Campos, a 36-year-old from Peru, was fatally shot in the chest in August …

Vietnam confirmed 15,100 local Covid-19 cases Saturday, bringing the infection tally in the ongoing wave to 2,203,904. The three localities with the highest numbers of patients are Hanoi with 2,806 cases, Bac Ninh with 992 cases and Da Nang with 865 cases. Vietnam has recorded 166 infections with the Omicron …