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Around 3,500 people had to go to the hospital nationwide during the week-long Tet holiday due to fighting, the Health Ministry said. The number of cases reported during the holiday, from January 20 to the morning of January 27, was down 1.5% from the same period during last year’s Tet …

Companies that resumed operations on Friday in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) after the Tet holiday report that 95% of their laborers have returned to work. A quick survey of 1,361 companies in the city shows that over 42% of them had arranged for employees to go on holiday for …

Two Indian Air Force fighter jets crashed Saturday, killing one pilot, in an apparent mid-air collision while on exercises south of the capital New Delhi. The crash involved a Russian-made Sukhoi Su-30, carrying two pilots, and a French-built Mirage 2000, operated by a third. Both aircraft had taken off in …

Thailand’s ruling pro-military Palang Pracharat party has chosen political veteran and former army chief Prawit Wongsuwon as its prime minister candidate, a senior official said on Friday, as parties gear up for an election that must be held by May. Prawit, an adept political dealmaker in Thailand’s conservative establishment and …

Tyre Nichols, a Black motorist stopped by Memphis police earlier this month, is seen pummeled into submission while crying “Mom, mom,” as five police officers later charged with his murder deliver kicks, punches and baton blows in graphic video the city released on Friday. The footage from police body-worn cameras …

A pregnant woman was hospitalized in critical condition on January 22 after her husband kept her at home though she went into labor because he wanted her to deliver on Tet. The labor pangs had begun on the afternoon of the 20th for the 32-year-old. She was 39 weeks pregnant. …

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 …