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HCMC plans free smartphones for poor people

Poor residents who cannot afford smartphones should be given one, the HCMC Department of Information and Communications has proposed. It has argued that the goal of digital transformation can be achieved only when the administration, the economy and the society transform at the same time. To enable digitalization of the …

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Lawmakers okay $6.5 bln for north-south expressway extension

The National Assembly approved Tuesday a 729 km (453 miles) expansion to the eastern part of Vietnam’s North-South Expressway. The extension received 93.99 percent votes from 474 legislators, allowing the government to spend VND146.990 trillion (almost $6.5 billion) of the state budget to implement 12 projects on the expansion. The …

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One dead, six wounded in Philippines bus bombing

One dead, six wounded in Philippines bus bombing

A child was killed and six others wounded after a bomb exploded on a public bus in the insurgency-plagued southern Philippines on Tuesday, authorities said, but no group has claimed responsibility. Police said the explosion happened as the bus was traveling along a highway near Cotabato City on Mindanao island, …

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Vietnam records 16,019 new local Covid cases

The Health Ministry confirmed 16,019 domestic Covid-19 patients on Tuesday in all 63 cities and provinces, raising the tally in the fourth wave since last April to 1,914,089 cases. The three localities with the highest numbers of cases are Hanoi with 2,884 cases, the central Khanh Hoa Province with 782 …

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China orders suspension of some US flights after Covid-19 cases

China orders suspension of some US flights after Covid-19 cases

China has ordered the cancellation of more than two dozen scheduled flights from the United States in recent weeks after numerous passengers tested positive for Covid-19 after arriving in China. China’s aviation regulator has mandated the cancellations of eight total scheduled U.S. passenger airline flights for Shanghai under its Covid-19 …

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