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Inmates allowed to work outside prisons

Prisons under the Ministry of Public Security are allowed to cooperate with local organizations to let inmates work outside of jail. The policy will be carried out in a pilot scheme to organize vocational training courses and then create jobs for inmates during the time they serve their sentences, according …

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Meth user takes ambulance for a spin

A man high on drugs broke into a hospital, stole an ambulance and caused mayhem in Ninh Kieu District of Mekong Delta’s Can Tho. Lam Hoang Nhu, 37, on Wednesday picked up a brick and broke into the emergency area of Can Tho General Hospital. He then invaded the cafeteria …

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Police to look into theft at HCMC’s 1st metro construction site

The company building HCMC’s metro line No.1 has reported a theft of 13,000 rail clamps and several cables to the police. The HCMC Management Authority for Urban Railways (MAUR) said Wednesday that in May the contractor, a consortium of Japanese Sumitomo Corporation and Vietnam’s Civil Engineering Construction Corporation No 6 …

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Australia raises emissions cutting target for 2030

Australia raises emissions cutting target for 2030

Australia, under a new Labor government, on Thursday raised its 2030 target for cutting carbon emissions, bringing the country more in line with other developed economies’ Paris climate accord commitments. Australia, one of the world’s highest per capita carbon emitters, pledged to the United Nations that it would cut carbon …

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Japan runs biggest trade deficit in more than 8 years in May

Japan runs biggest trade deficit in more than 8 years in May

Japan ran its biggest single-month trade deficit in more than eight years in May as high commodity prices and declines in the yen swelled imports, clouding the country’s economic outlook. The growing trade deficit underscores the headwinds the world’s third-largest economy faces from a slide in the yen and surging …

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HCMC traffic collision turns into bloody fight

A street scuffle in Ho Chi Minh City after a traffic collision on Tuesday sent two people to hospital with severe injuries, police said. A 30-year-old man was driving a truck along Road 35 of HCMC’s Thu Duc City when he collided with a car Tuesday noon. A scuffle soon …

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