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Sleeper buses will be banned from downtown areas in Ho Chi Minh City from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. starting January 10, 2023, to ensure traffic safety and order. In a statement sent recently to relevant agencies, the city’s administration said the purpose is to eliminate unlicensed buses and stations …

President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a $1.66 trillion bill funding the U.S. government for fiscal year 2023, the White House said in a statement. Biden signed the bill, which passed Congress last week, while vacationing on the Caribbean island of St. Croix. The legislation includes record military funding, emergency …

Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd estimated on Friday its 2022 revenue remained flat, suggesting that its sales decline due to U.S. sanctions had come to a halt. Despite sales increasing a mere 0.02%, rotating chairman Eric Xu struck an upbeat tone in the company’s annual New Year’s letter, …

Several Vietnamese were among those injured or killed in a fire at a casino-hotel complex in Cambodia, a Cambodian official has confirmed. The fire broke out at about midnight on Wednesday at Grand Diamond City, a casino and hotel in the town of Poipet, near the border with Thailand, according …

A court in the central Nghe An Province has handed jail terms to four local men for stealing 14 dogs. Following the trial Thursday, Nguyen Dinh Phong, 30, got 12 months for “property theft” and “illegal possession of military weapons.” Vuong Van Hong, 36, got 24 months, Nguyen Dinh Quynh, …

Rescuers scoured the charred ruins of a Cambodian hotel and casino complex Friday, warning they expected to find “many more” victims of a deadly fire that forced people to jump from windows. Hundreds of people are believed to have been inside the Grand Diamond City hotel-casino, located within sight of …

The United States joined nations imposing Covid tests on travellers from China after Beijing dropped foreign travel curbs despite surging cases, but the EU’s health agency said Thursday such measures weren’t warranted in the bloc. The head of the World Health Organization, however, said the restrictions some countries were introducing …

Starting next February, connections to and from Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport will be boosted with 14 new bus routes. The city’s Department of Transport will launch the new routes on a pilot scheme. They will be operated by Hai Van International Transportation Joint Venture Company. …

The British Embassy in Hanoi and UNICEF have handed over life-saving equipment worth £500,000 (US$602,400) to assist the recovery of Vietnam’s health system. The equipment, funded by the U.K. government and delivered through UNICEF, includes 500 patient vital signs monitors and 500 syringe pumps. Vietnam’s Ministry of Health, which received …

The death toll from a fierce winter storm that gripped much of the United States over Christmas rose to at least 61 on Thursday, officials said. Erie County executive Mark Poloncarz said two more deaths had been reported in the western New York region that bore the brunt of the …