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Around 81 percent of parents of primary school students in HCMC want Covid-19 vaccination for their children, as do 60.5 percent of parents of kindergartners. Trinh Duy Trong, head of the political ideology division at the city Department of Education and Training, announced the statistics on Thursday, saying authorities would …

Consumers risk losing all their money invested in cryptoassets and could fall prey to scams, the European Union’s securities, banking and insurance watchdogs said in a joint statement on Thursday. “Consumers face the very real possibility of losing all their invested money if they buy these assets,” the three EU …

Amazon.com Inc has closed its $8.5 billion deal to buy MGM, combining the fabled moviemaker with the online retailing giant as it looks to draw consumers through more streaming video. In a statement, Amazon said it would welcome all MGM employees to the company and work with the studio’s leadership, …

The developer of HCMC’s metro line No.1 has sought approval to upgrade its automatic fare collection (AFC) system to improve efficiency of service. The HCMC Management Authority for Urban Railways (MAUR) said in a proposal to the city Department of Transport Wednesday that the upgrade would enable passengers to buy …

Vietnam will consider delisting Covid-19 as a Class A infectious disease, the list of diseases that are classified as “especially dangerous,” the government announced Thursday. The announcement was made in accordance with a 2022-2023 Covid-19 prevention program issued the same day. Class A infectious diseases include those with high infection …

Three months after reopening, many HCMC schools say rules to curb the spread of Covid-19 are no longer working. Early this week, Nhu, 44, a Thu Duc City resident, was asked by the school to pick up her tenth grader daughter as she had been identified as a Covid-19 close …

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has approved closing Bong Mieu gold mine in the central Quang Nam Province to protect resources and the environment. According to the ministry’s decision on Tuesday, the shutdown of the mine in Tam Lanh Commune of Phu Ninh District will serve to protect …

The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week as demand for labor remained strong, positioning the economy for another month of solid job gains. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits decreased 15,000 to a seasonally adjusted 214,000 for the week ended March 12, the Labor …

The Foreign Affairs Ministry says Vietnam has resumed visa exemption and e-visa issuance to what it used to be before the Covid-19 pandemic took hold. “Vietnam has resumed visa exemption for foreign nationals in accordance with international conventions that Vietnam is a party to, applied visa exemptions on reciprocal basis …

Vietnam on Thursday recorded 353,962 local Covid-19 cases, including over 175,000 cases from previous days added to the national database by Vinh Phuc and Hai Duong provinces. The total number of infections in the fourth wave since late April last year is now 7,094,869 cases. The three localities with the …