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A National Highway 13 section has been functioning as an arterial route inside and outside HCMC for decades, causing overload and traffic jams in urgent need of easing. In the days just before and after the Lunar New Year holiday, which lasted nine days from Jan. 29 to Feb. 6, …

With elementary students returning to schools Feb. 21, Da Nang City will have all its schools having in-person classes after a gap of about six months. The municipal administration announced Thursday that sixth graders will resume in-person classes next Monday while elementary schools will start receiving students from Feb. 21 …

The World Health Organization said Friday that it had prequalified the arthritis treatment tocilizumab for use in patients hospitalized with severe Covid-19, in a bid to increase access to the pricey drug. The monoclonal antibody, used in anti-inflammatory drugs made by Swiss pharma giant Roche, has been shown to reduce …

Protesters against New Zealand’s vaccination mandates and tough Covid-19 restrictions gathered outside parliament in the capital Wellington for a fifth day on Saturday despite forecasts of drenching rain. Police have put up new barriers on parliament grounds and said they would maintain a strong presence to assure peaceful demonstrations. Inspired …

A U.S. decision on Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine for infants and children 6 months through 4 years of age has been postponed for at least two months after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it needed more data. The FDA had planned to decide on the vaccine based …

Health authorities confirmed 26,471 Covid-19 cases Friday, raising the domestic tally in the ongoing wave to 2,427,585. Hanoi continued to lead the daily tally with 2,908 cases, followed by Nghe An with 1,501 and Hai Duong with 1,447. Friday’s confirmation included 96 deaths, pushing Vietnam’s Covid-19 death toll to 38,688 …

Business boomed last year for Chinese chip maker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) on the back of a global chip shortage, SMIC’s revenues and profits soaring despite pressure from U.S. sanctions, it said. Sales for calendar 2021 were up 39% on the year at a record of $5.4 billion, propelled …

U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, and Cynthia Lummis, a Republican, introduced a bill aimed at addressing addiction to social media platforms like Meta Platform’s Facebook or TwitterTWTR.N. A Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, made a big splash last year with documents showing that subsidiary Instagram was harmful to teenagers while …

The government has approved a proposal to choose contractors for 12 expressway projects to extend Vietnam’s North-South Expressway instead of organizing bidding. As stated in the government resolution Friday, leaders of the Ministry of Transport will appoint contractors in 2022 and 2023 for packages related to consultancy, site clearance and …

U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, and Cynthia Lummis, a Republican, introduced a bill aimed at addressing addiction to social media platforms like Meta Platform’s Facebook or TwitterTWTR.N. A Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, made a big splash last year with documents showing that subsidiary Instagram was harmful to teenagers while …