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Covid concerns prompt suspension of all spring festivals

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has ordered localities nationwide to suspend all spring festivals and cancel fireworks shows planned for the Tet holiday over the “complicated” pandemic situation. For traditional festivities, the ministry has only allowed the organization of ceremonial parts, banning entertainment activities that attract crowds. Movie …

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Australia boosts spending to protect koalas

Australia boosts spending to protect koalas

Australia will spend an additional A$50 million ($35 million) in the next four years to protect koala habitat and slow the decline of the vulnerable species, the government said on Saturday. The marsupials native to Australia have been decimated by bushfires, disease and vehicles, with estimates of their numbers ranging …

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Vietnam, USAID ink broad spectrum pact to fight climate change

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment signed a Memorandum of Understanding Friday to bolster Vietnam’s climate change response. USAID’s collaboration with the ministry will focus on air quality management, integrated water resource management and water security, conservation and sustainable use of …

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U.S. airlines cancel almost 5,000 flights ahead of Nor’easter

U.S. airlines cancel almost 5,000 flights ahead of Nor'easter

U.S. carriers on Friday canceled thousands of flights through the weekend in anticipation of a winter storm forecast to bring high winds and heavy snow across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. The National Weather Service said in an advisory that the Nor’easter would result in dangerous blizzards and make travel “nearly …

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Foreign ministry consular officials detained in bribery probe

Nguyen Thi Huong Lan, General Director, and three other officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Consular Department have been arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes. Lieutenant General To An Xo, Chief of staff and spokesman of the Ministry of Public Security, said Friday that Lan, 48, Do Hoang Tung, …

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Vietnam records 14,892 new local Covid-19 cases

Vietnam confirmed 14,892 local Covid-19 cases Friday, bringing the infection tally in the ongoing wave to 2,188,804. The three localities with the highest numbers of patients are Hanoi with 2,885 cases, Bac Ninh with 1,013 cases and Da Nang with 886 cases. Vietnam has recorded 166 infections with the Omicron …

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