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The House Foreign Affairs Committee plans to hold a vote next month on a bill aimed at blocking the use of China’s popular social media app TikTok in the United States, the committee confirmed on Friday. The measure, planned by the panel’s chair Representative Michael McCaul, a Republican, would aim …

Almost a quarter more domestic Chinese tourism trips have been made during this year’s Lunar New Year holiday, while cross-border travel more than doubled in the first six days of the week-long break following the end of strict Covid-19 curbs. A total of 308 million tourism trips within China have …

Tan Son Nhat airport in HCMC served more than 149,000 passengers on Friday, the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, marking the highest number of single-day passengers ever. According to the airport, 91,000 of the passengers flew into Ho Chi Minh City. Of those inbound, 71,000 were on domestic …

On the 50th anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords, which helped end the longest war of the 20th century, Major General Nguyen Hong Quan, former deputy head of the Vietnam Institute for Defense Strategy, spoke to VnExpress about the historic event. The negotiation of the Paris Peace Accords (signed January …

Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCMC handled more than 149,000 passengers on Friday, the highest single-day passenger number at the country’s largest airport. A manager of the airport said 91,000 of those passengers flew into Ho Chi Chi Minh City from elsewhere, including 71,000 on domestic flights. Around 58,000 …

Dien Bien Airport in Dien Bien Province in northwestern Vietnam will suspend operations for at least six months starting in late March while an expansion project is completed. State-owned Vietnam Airports Corporation (ACV), which operates all 22 commercial airports nationwide, said the project includes work to expand the taxiway and …

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has instructed ministries and other related agencies to quickly prepare for construction of the trans-Vietnam high-speed railroad line. The PM said Thursday that the preparations would start with the section between Ho Chi Minh City and Can Tho City in the Mekong Delta. The section …

Australia’s competition regulator said on Friday it would check whether influencers on social media platforms had failed to disclose their affiliation with the brands they were promoting. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said it would look at more than 100 influencers after several consumers informed the regulator about …

Protests against French government plans to raise the retirement age had a muted impact on the energy sector on Thursday, the first day of 48-hour strikes, lowering hydropower output and curbing some refinery deliveries. In electricity, supply from the Belleville 1 nuclear reactor was lowered 1 gigawatt (GW) due to …

Core consumer prices in Japan’s capital, a leading indicator of nationwide trends, rose 4.3% in January from a year earlier, marking the fastest annual gain in nearly 42 years and keeping the central bank under pressure to phase out economic stimulus. While the government’s energy subsidies starting next month will …