Sunday , November 24 2024

World

Fashion

North set for freezing Tet

A cold front is set to blanket northern Vietnam from January 15 to 29, which includes the Lunar New Year holiday, plunging average daytime temperatures to below 15 degrees Celsius. Nguyen Van Huong, head of the weather forecast department at the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, said the cold front …

Read More »

Steel coil crushes truck cabin in southern Vietnam

An improperly attached steel coil being transported on a tractor-trailer rolled over and crushed the truck’s cabin in Dong Nai Province when the vehicle stopped suddenly last week. The trailer’s driver braked hard at a red light as the vehicle sped along National Highway 51 in the southern province last …

Read More »

Chinese rush to renew passports as Covid border curbs lifted

Chinese rush to renew passports as Covid border curbs lifted

People joined long queues outside immigration offices in Beijing on Monday, eager to renew their passports after China dropped Covid border controls that had largely prevented its 1.4 billion residents from travelling for three years. Sunday’s reopening is one of the last steps in China’s dismantling of its “zero-Covid” regime, …

Read More »