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Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has approved technical assistant funding for a new metro section in Hanoi. The technical assistance project will cost $15 million, including $12.6 million of non-refundable aid from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and European Union, with the rest drawn from Vietnamese counterpart capital, Hanoi Metropolitan …

Danish shipper Maersk said the Shanghai lockdown will severely hurt trucking services and increase transport costs, as China’s intensifying efforts to fight the spread of Covid-19 further rattles global supply chains. The Chinese coastal city, home to some of the world’s busiest sea and airports, began locking down half of …

Central Vietnam would experience heavy rains up to 400 millimeters from Wednesday to Saturday, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting. A low-pressure area could be formed and move towards Vietnam and in combination with cold air, bring heavy rains to central Vietnam and the Central Highlands, the center …

Le Hoa Binh, deputy chairman of HCMC’s People Committee, died in a car accident while on a business trip to the Mekong Delta Tuesday. He passed away at Long An Province General Hospital in the delta, a provincial official confirmed. HCMC chairman Phan Van Mai and his family have arrived …

Children below 12 should be vaccinated against Covid-19 in order to go back to school, the Hanoi Party Secretary said Monday. Dinh Tien Dung, Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee, said medical authorities need to rehearse Covid-19 vaccination for children under 12. “Only with vaccination can we be reassured that …

Singapore’s top court Tuesday dismissed a mentally disabled Malaysian man’s last-ditch appeal against a death sentence, with his family saying they were “devastated” and “shocked” by the ruling. Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam was arrested in 2009 for trafficking a small amount of heroin into the city-state, which has some of the …

U.S. trade officials on Monday said they will launch an investigation that could result in tariffs on solar panels imported from four Southeast Asian nations, a blow to clean energy project developers that rely on cheap imports to keep costs down. The Commerce Department’s decision regarding imports from Malaysia, Thailand, …

Thousands of people across eastern Australia have been told to leave their homes as storms bear down on cities and towns still recovering from record deadly flooding just weeks ago. Multiple evacuation orders were issued for the town of Lismore, which was devastated last month when record-high 14.3-meter (47 feet) …

Le Hoa Binh, deputy chairman of the HCMC People’s Committee, was seriously injured after his car blew a tire and flipped over on the HCMC – Trung Luong Expressway Tuesday. Binh was on his way from the city to the Mekong Delta when the accident took place at around 7:20 …

A car driving Le Hoa Binh, deputy chairman of HCMC People’s Committee, blew a tire and flipped over on HCMC – Trung Luong Expressway Tuesday morning. Binh was on his way from the city to the Mekong Delta when the accident took place at around 7:20 a.m., said Senior Colonel …