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Society

-- Foreign visitors who do not have a visa will be allowed to enter Vietnam to work, attend conferences, seminars, study, and more, as Standing Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh has recently agreed to relax the entry procedure for foreigners as well as Vietnamese and their relatives who reside in other countries.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control on Wednesday afternoon issued an urgent notice to find all passengers traveling on two flights related to newly discovered Omicron infections, including flight VN5409 from South Korea to Cam Ranh International Airport in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa on January 7, and flight VN1345 from Cam Ranh to Ho Chi Minh City on January 10.

-- Vietnamese authorities, supported by the UK’s National Crime Agency at the request of police from Scotland, arrested a 77-year-old man in connection with non-recent sexual offenses against children under an Interpol Red Notice on Tuesday, the British Embassy in Vietnam announced on its verified Facebook page a day later.

Business

-- Hanoi expects to raise its export revenue by five percent this year, the Vietnam News Agency quoted the municipal Department of Industry and Trade on Wednesday.

Lifestyle

-- Many people in Vietnam have expressed their fury after Hong Quang Minh, aka Minh Beo (Fat Minh), a Vietnamese entertainer convicted of child molestation in the U.S. in 2016, received a silver medal at a national festival for theater that wrapped up early this week.

Sports

-- Vietnamese futsal goalkeeper Ho Van Y has been named one of the world’s 10 leading futsal goalies in 2021 by FutsalPlanet, the Vietnam News Agency reported on Wednesday.

World news

-- People in England will no longer be required to wear face masks anywhere or work from home from next week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday, adding that scientists believed a wave of the Omicron coronavirus variant had peaked nationally, Reuters reported the same day.

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