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Twelve people have been taken into police custody for their alleged role in a deadly fire in central China’s Jiangxi province, state media said Thursday. Firefighters work at the site of a building fire in Xinyu City, east China’s Jiangxi Province, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. Photo by Xinhua via AP …

At least 39 people died and nine were receiving treatment for injuries Wednesday after a fire broke out at a store in the central Chinese province of Jiangxi, state media reported. “At 3:24 p.m. (0724 GMT) on Jan. 24, a fire broke out on the below-ground level at a store… …

The central province of Khanh Hoa will use its public funds to build roads and embankments along the Cai River after the World Bank canceled its sponsorship of the delayed project. As part of the Coastal Cities Sustainable Environment Project, Nha Trang City sub-project (CCSEP Nha Trang) is projected to …

The education ministry has requested foreigners teaching English at language centers in Vietnam to complete a training program, focusing on pedagogical skills. Vu Minh Duc, head of the Teacher and Education Management Officials Department under the Ministry of Education and Training, said Tuesday that the program, which was introduced last month, aims to improve the …

Ice and frost have appeared on more high-altitude locations as a cold wave sweeps through northern Vietnam. Northern Vietnam entered the third day of a severe cold wave on Wednesday, as temperatures remain low both during the day and at night. Several high-altitude locations saw temperatures falling below zero degrees …

Twelve out of 16 Covid patients hospitalized in HCMC last month were infected with the fast-growing JN.1 subvariant, a health official said, adding that admissions have been on the rise. This marks the first time the JN.1 variant has been detected in Vietnam, Director of Ho Chi Minh City’s Health …

Hundreds of thousands of students in northern Vietnam stayed home on Wednesday as an intense cold wave plunged temperatures below 10 degrees Celsius. All 25 northern Vietnam localities recorded temperatures below 10 degrees Celsius Wednesday morning, a drop of 0.5-2 degrees from Tuesday. Lang Son’s Mau Son recorded the lowest …

All 25 northern Vietnam localities recorded temperatures below 10 degrees Celsius on Wednesday morning, the lowest at minus 2.9 degrees in Mau Son, a drop of nearly 2 degrees from Tuesday. Temperatures in the north have fallen by 0.5-2 degrees compared to Tuesday morning. At the mountainous Mau Son area …

A man in HCMC was fined VND7.5 million ($304.93) for livestreaming and falsely saying he was selling 7,000 seized vehicles from the police’s evidence storage. The man, 35, livestreamed on Jan. 19 to sell the motorbikes seized by police from traffic violators inside a storage field in District 11. In …

Several people have been hospitalized over the past few days amid the sweep of a severe cold wave that began in northern Vietnam late last week. A 60-year-old man in Hanoi suffered from a headache, dizziness and tingly limbs when he woke up on Tuesday morning. His family tried to …