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Hollywood’s film academy on Friday banned Will Smith from attending the Oscars for 10 years after the best actor winner slapped presenter Chris Rock on stage at the Academy Awards ceremony 12 days ago. The board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences took the action …

Ho Chi Minh City will spend VND93 billion ($4 million) to improve connectivity of an integrated metro-bus network for metro line No.1. The fund will be used to build bus stops around stations of the metro line, which runs 19.7 kilometers to connect Ben Thanh Market in District 1 with …

Around 600,000 kindergartners in Hanoi will return to school starting April 13, the municipal People’s Committee said Friday afternoon. With their return, all students and kindergartners in the capital would be back in school after staying home for months due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Students from first to sixth grade …

Health authorities confirmed 65,096 new Covid-19 cases in 62 cities and provinces Friday. Bac Giang accounted for most cases, at 27,815, including over 25,000 cases that have been detected in previous days but yet to be confirmed on the national Covid-19 patient database. Hanoi and Yen Bai follow Bac Giang’s …

Health authorities confirmed 67,418 new Covid-19 cases in 62 cities and provinces Friday. Bac Giang accounted for most cases, at 27,815, including over 25,000 cases that have been detected in previous days but yet to be confirmed on the national Covid-19 patient database. Hanoi and Yen Bai follow Bac Giang’s …

HCMC will spend VND1.67 trillion ($73 million) to continue the consultancy service for its long-delayed metro line No.1. City Chairman Phan Van Mai signed the decision to resume the service with the metro line’s consulting unit, NJPT, a consortium led by Japan’s Nippon Koei, on Wednesday. As he requested, the …

Electric carmaker Tesla will make a “dedicated” self-driving taxi that will “look futuristic,” Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Thursday, without giving a timeframe. The 50-year-old billionaire, wearing a black cowboy hat and sunglasses, made the comments at the opening of Tesla’s $1.1 billion factory in Texas, which is home …

Qatar Airways and Airbus clashed in court Thursday over the fate of billions of dollars of jet orders as their 25-year partnership unravelled in scenes resembling a corporate divorce trial. The two sides have been locked for months in a dispute over damaged lightning protection within the painted skin of …

China on Wednesday issued a draft law on financial stability in a bid to further strengthen safety nets to prevent systemic financial risks in the world’s second biggest economy. China will establish a financial stability protection fund to beef up its ability to cope with major financial risks, and set …

The Transport Ministry has criticized the management board and contractors of a project to upgrade Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat airport. In a letter sent recently to My Thuan Project Management Board, in charge of managing the upgrade project at Tan Son Nhat International Airport, the Ministry of …