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Govt allows picking contractors for north-south expressway extension

The government has approved a proposal to choose contractors for 12 expressway projects to extend Vietnam’s North-South Expressway instead of organizing bidding. As stated in the government resolution Friday, leaders of the Ministry of Transport will appoint contractors in 2022 and 2023 for packages related to consultancy, site clearance and …

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Petrol prices rise past VNĐ25,000 a litre, highest since 2014

  A petrol station on Trần Khát Chân Street, Hà Nội, on Friday afternoon. — VNA/VnExpress News Photo Trần Việt HÀ NỘI — Retail petrol prices increased by nearly VNĐ1,000 per litre from 3pm on Friday, following the latest adjustment by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry …

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U.S. lawmakers introduce bipartisan bill to address social media addiction

U.S. lawmakers introduce bipartisan bill to address social media addiction

U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, and Cynthia Lummis, a Republican, introduced a bill aimed at addressing addiction to social media platforms like Meta Platform’s Facebook or TwitterTWTR.N. A Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, made a big splash last year with documents showing that subsidiary Instagram was harmful to teenagers while …

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