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A Vietnamese man in the U.K. was arrested for his involvement in a network smuggling compatriots to the U.K. Mai Van Nguyen, 32, was arrested Tuesday in Birmingham on two charges, conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration and money laundering, Birmingham Mail reported. The National Crime Agency, which made the arrest, …

HCMC has recorded five Covid-19 cases in the community with the Omicron variant between January 31 and February 7, the municipal health department announced. The cases were among 72 infections chosen randomly for virus gene sequencing in several hospitals of Ho Chi Minh City, authorities said. Three of them HCMC …

High inflation, which has overshot the Fed’s 2 percent target, could imperil Biden’s economic agenda. Financial markets speculate a hefty 50-basis point interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve next month. US consumer prices rose firmly in January, leading to the biggest annual increase in inflation in 40 years, fueling …

The HCMC Covid-19 Resuscitation Hospital, the city’s largest intensive care unit, will be closed soon since it no longer gets patients. “The ICU has accomplished its mission,” Nguyen Thi Huynh Mai, chief of office at the city Department of Health, told reporters on Thursday. But the closing date has yet …

High inflation, which has overshot the Fed’s 2 percent target, could imperil Biden’s economic agenda. Financial markets speculate a hefty 50-basis point interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve next month. US consumer prices rose firmly in January, leading to the biggest annual increase in inflation in 40 years, fueling …

Worried about the vaccines’ side-effects and believing that Covid-19 infections are mild among young children, parents are now hesitant to have them vaccinated. Dung and her husband, who live in Hanoi’s Ha Dong District, have two children aged five and eight. They have decided against getting them vaccinated against Covid-19 …

Google faces a fine after Russia’s antitrust watchdog said the U.S. tech firm had breached rules related to suspending and blocking accounts on its YouTube video service. Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) said on Thursday the fine would be determined during an administrative investigation, adding Google’s conduct had infringed users’ …

HCMC has called on the Ministry of Transport to approve construction of overpasses and a tunnel to decongest the entry to a highway that runs to Dong Nai Province. In a letter it wrote to the ministry Thursday, the city said it has “basically completed the pre-feasibility study” for a …

Trains will run on a trial scheme along separate sections of Ho Chi Minh City’s metro line No.1 before hitting the entire route by this year’s end. In the first phase of the trial run, trains will run on a section in Thu Duc City. In August, it will run …

Hundreds gathered outside immigration offices in Nghe An and Ha Tinh provinces after the Tet holiday to apply for passports, double the number last year, local officials said. A large crowd lined up outside the Nghe An Police immigration office Thursday to complete procedures for their passports. Police officers were …