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As a senior citizen, if you are unable to visit post office to make withdrawals from post office schemes such as Senior Citizens Savings Scheme (SCSS), post office time deposits, savings account etc., now you can send an ‘authorized person’ on your behalf to carry out the transaction. The authorized person can make withdrawals/close or make premature withdrawals from the post office schemes on behalf of senior citizens. Up until now, this was not allowed; the senior citizen would have to visit the post office branch to make withdrawals/close accounts, make premature withdrawals from post office schemes. The Department of…
After the attack, the gunman escaped through a park behind the house and shot two dog walkers The United Kingdom has one of the lowest gun homicide rates in the world, and mass shootings are rare. This was the first mass shooting in the country for 11 years. Visit Vietnam Insider’s homepage for more stories. Six people, including a child, were killed in a mass shooting in the city of Plymouth in southwest England on Thursday evening, in an incident described by the British Home Secretary as “shocking”, Reuters reported. Two females and three males, including the suspect, died from…
Living a financially free lifestyle demands an overall change in your money attitudes and habits. Debt-free people aren’t that way by accident. Amid this week’s independence theme, we enlighten you on healthy habits and best practices to ensure financial freedom, with the help of a wealth expert. Read more: EconomicTimes
Macro economy of Vietnam basically stabilized in seven months with remarkable achievements recorded in many spheres, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said yesterday. “Attention has been paid to cultural and social affairs, while social security has been ensured”, the Prime Minister spoke at the Government’s regular meeting on August 11. “This is also the common assessment of international organizations and institutions,” he added. Regarding the fight against COVID-19 pandemic, the government’s leader said the pandemic is till under control, adding major pandemic clusters have been contained, the Vietnam News Agency reported. Related: Vietnam’s economy can only grow from 3.5-4 percent this…
The analysts at UnaFinancial have studied the e-commerce trend and growth potential of Buy Now, Pay Later. The e-commerce market is forecasted to rise 2.5 times reaching USD 12 Bn by 2025 in the Philippines. The share of Buy Now, Pay Later payment methods will grow from 3% in 2020 to 7% in 2025, equalling nearly USD 843 M. In 2025 e-commerce of Philippine is expected to increase 2.5 times amounting to USD 12 Bn in the 5-year period. The growth of e-commerce will have a positive effect on all digital payment methods, BNPL included. The BNPL services will develop…
Hackers have stolen some $600 million in cryptocurrency from the decentralized finance platform Poly Network, in what it says is the largest theft in the industry’s history. A vulnerability in Poly Network allowed the thief to make off with the funds, the platform said Tuesday, begging the attacker to return the money. “The amount of money you hacked is the biggest one in the defi history,” Poly Network wrote in a letter to the attacker it posted to Twitter. “The money you stole are from tens of thousands of crypto community members… you should talk to us to work out…
Earth is warming faster than previously thought, scientists say, and the window is closing to avoid catastrophic outcomes As the world battles historic droughts, landscape-altering wildfires and deadly floods, a landmark report from global scientists says the window is rapidly closing to cut our reliance on fossil fuels and avoid catastrophic changes that would transform life as we know it. The state-of-the-science report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says the world has rapidly warmed 1.1 degrees Celsius higher than pre-industrial levels, and is now careening toward 1.5 degrees — a critical threshold that world leaders agreed…
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its travel warnings Tuesday to include Vietnam in the group of high-risk countries due to rising infection numbers. More stories at Vietnam Insider’s homepage. Sixty-five countries and territories, including Vietnam, India, Japan, Cambodia and the Philippines have been listed as level 3, or those posing high Covid-19 risks in the agency’s latest travel advisory. The agency has warned unvaccinated travelers to limit non-essential travel to Vietnam. Due to the current pandemic situation in the country, all travelers may be at risk of contracting or spreading Covid variants, it said. If American…
Vietnam confirmed 4,642 more Covid-19 infections in the past 12 hours while the country has so far administered over 12 million Covid-19 vaccine doses. With these new infection cases, the number of Covid-19 patients in Vietnam has increased to 241,543 including 239,159 locally-transmitted cases. According to the latest report from Health Ministry today morning, 4,639 of the newly-confirmed patients are locally-transmitted cases most of whom were detected in quarantine sites or areas under lockdown in some localities such as Ho Chi Minh City (2,318 cases), Binh Duong (911), Dong Nai (425), Long An (354), Tien Giang (212), and Khanh Hoa…