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Society

-- Some US$9 billion is needed to develop a 174-kilometer express railway connecting Ho Chi Minh City with the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho, which will allow a maximum speed of 190 kilometers per hour for passenger trains and pass through six southern localities— Ho Chi Minh City, Long An, Tien Giang, Vinh Long, and Can Tho, according to a report sent by the Railway Management Board to the Ministry of Transport.

-- The People’s Committee of southern Dong Thap Province, the Ministry of Transport, other relevant departments and agencies, and experts have reached a consensus on establishing a team to regulate the recovery of the body of a 10-year-old boy who has been trapped in a 35-meter-deep hollow concrete pile for over eight days. The boy had been earlier declared dead by local authorities.

-- The People’s Committee of Ward 11, District 5 in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday called on 20 households in an old and deteriorated apartment building at 440 Tran Hung Dao Street to relocate to the An Phu Apartment Building on Hau Giang Street in District 6 to celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year, or Tet, holiday.

-- Immigration activities to China through the Mong Cai Border Gate in northern Quang Ninh Province will be resumed from today, November 8. However, Vietnamese entering China must show proof of a negative RT-PCR COVID-19 test taken 48 hours of their arrival. The requirement will be also imposed on drivers and driving assistants transporting goods to the northern neighbor through border gates in Lang Son Province.

-- Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi has taken measures to serve more than 100,000 passengers in the height of the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday. The airport is expected to welcome some 580 flights on the peak day of the holiday.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport has proposed the municipal People’s Committee allow Greenlines DP Technology Co. Ltd to continue exploiting the second quay at the Bach Dang Wharf in District 1 until the end of this year as its contract to use the wharf expired on December 31 last year.

-- Three customs officials at the Nam Can Border Gate in Nghe An Province, north-central Vietnam have been detained for allegedly receiving VND2 billion ($85,233) from an enterprise to allow its overloaded ore transporting vehicles from Laos to go through the border gate over 5,000 times.

Business

-- Nearly 14,300 foreign direct investment (FDI) enterprises in Vietnam reported losses in 2021, making up 55 percent of the total number of FDI firms in the country, according to the Ministry of Finance.

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