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HCMC will conduct a New Year’s Eve countdown program without spectators Friday night, the municipal People’s Committee said. From 10 p.m. Friday to midnight Saturday, the city will organize its yearly New Year’s Eve countdown program on Nguyen Hue Street in District 1, not Le Duan Street as previously planned. …

Vietnam on Thursday recorded 19,848 local Covid-19 cases, including 2,868 cases detected on previous days in the southern province of Ca Mau. The coronavirus tally in the fourth wave since late April is 1,708,129 cases. The three localities with the highest numbers of cases are Ca Mau with 3,876 cases, …

HCMC budget revenues rose 3 percent year on year to VND383.703 trillion ($16.85 billion) in 2021, 5.2 percent higher than the set target. According to the HCMC Statistics Office, the increase in the city’s budget revenue mainly came from the real estate, banking and securities industries. The government’s policy of …