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The chief executives of major U.S. passenger and cargo carriers on Monday warned of an impending “catastrophic” aviation crisis in less than 36 hours, when AT&T and Verizon are set to deploy new 5G service. The airlines warned the new C-Band 5G service set to begin on Wednesday could render …

U.N. chief Antonio Guterres told the all-virtual Davos forum on Monday that the world must vaccinate everybody against Covid-19 to ensure a way out of the pandemic. The face-to-face gathering of political and corporate power players in the Swiss Alps is online for the second year in a row due …

China will not use its strength to “bully” its smaller neighbors including the Philippines, its foreign minister said on Monday, as he highlighted the importance of settling disputes in the South China Sea peacefully. “Stressing only one side’s claims and imposing one’s own will on the other is not a …

Many migrant workers have decided to stay in their hometowns until after the Lunar New Year holiday instead of returning to Ho Chi Minh City for work. Dang Hoang Tan, 27, returned to his hometown in the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long 3.5 months now. He used to work …

The Health Ministry announced 21,691 new domestic Covid-19 patients Monday, including 5,366 cases in the southern province of Ca Mau added to the national database. The total infection tally in the current wave so far is 2,016,520 cases. The three localities with the highest number of new cases were Ca …

China’s economy rebounded in 2021 with its best growth in a decade helped by robust exports but there are signs momentum is slowing on weakening consumption and a property downturn, pointing to the need for more policy support. Growth in the fourth quarter hit a one-and-a-half-year low, government data showed …

Ho Chi Minh City’s education department has proposed to resume classes for kindergarteners, primary school students and 6th graders starting Feb. 14. With the coronavirus situation under control in HCMC, widespread vaccination coverage for people aged 12 and above and the fact the southern city is now designated at low …

Mainland China’s birth rate dropped to a record low of 7.52 per 1,000 people in 2021, National Bureau of Statistics data showed on Monday, accelerating a downward trend that led Beijing last year to begin allowing couples to have up to three children. China scrapped its decades-old one-child policy in …

The world’s 10 wealthiest men doubled their fortunes during the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic as poverty and inequality soared, a report said on Monday. Oxfam said the men’s wealth jumped from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion, at an average rate of $1.3 billion per day, in a …

VnExpress’s Hope Foundation has handed around 1,500 gift packages to children whose parents succumbed to Covid-19 in southern epicenters ahead of the country’s biggest holiday Tet. Around 1,100 packages were delivered to children in different districts of Ho Chi Minh City on Friday and Saturday, before another 386 packages were …