Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com Inc., criticized a tweet from US President Joe Biden calling on oil executives to cut gas prices. Bezos responded to Biden’s criticism of companies that run gas stations and set prices for consumers. “This is a time of war and global danger,” the president tweeted on Saturday. “Reduce the price you charge at the pump to reflect the cost you pay for the product. And do it now.” Bezos tweeted Saturday night: “Ow. Inflation is far too important a problem for the White House to continue making statements like this. It is either a…
Author: Kevin Le
Two Vietnamese performers, an actor and a musician, aged 37 and 42, were arrested for raping a British minor in Mallorca, Spain. The alleged victim, a 17-year-old girl from the United Kingdom, dined with her mother, aunt and grandmother at a beachfront restaurant. Later they joined an adjacent table of 3 people (two men, one woman) to chat. At one point, the alleged victim, a 17-year-old British girl, decided to smoke on a wall on the beach, next to the restaurant (smoking on restaurant terraces is prohibited in Spain). The two men in question sat down next to her and…
Ho Chi Minh City has 126 bus routes with nearly 2,100 operational buses. The Traffic Infrastructure Department also pays a lot of attention to public transport, but the number of travelers using this mode of transport has decreased over the years. According to statistics from the Department of Transport of Ho Chi Minh City (Transportation), the number of bus passengers has decreased year after year from 2014 to now. In the period 2014-2018, the number of bus passengers decreased by an average of 6.65% per year. By 2019, the number of passengers using the bus will reach about 255 million,…
According to the report, international visitors to Vietnam reached nearly 511 thousand arrivals in the second quarter, 12.7 times more than the same period last year as Vietnam opened up tourism and reestablished international flight routes. In the second quarter of 2022, the number of tourists from Asia was the highest with more than 333 thousand arrivals, an increase of 9.5 times compared to the same period last year. The following is the number of tourists from Europe with nearly 80,000 visitors. In terms of each country and territory, the The place with the most visitors to Vietnam is South…
People can do online marriage registration by following the steps below. Step 1: Visit the marriage registration page on the National Public Service Portal https://dichvucong.gov.vn/p/home/dvc-chi-tiet-thu-tuc-hanh-chinh.html?ma_thu_tuc=1,000894 Then select the Province/City, Province/District, District/Municipality where the marriage registration procedure is performed and press Okay † Step 2: Login to the system After people have selected Submit Online † the system asks users to log in to the National Government Portal. People can use an account issued by the National Public Service Portal or an account issued by Vietnam Post. If you don’t have an account, people choose Register and follow the instructions Step…
According to CNBC, a US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) executive has asked Apple and Google to remove the short video platform TikTok from its app stores over security concerns. In the past, the popular app from Chinese parent company ByteDance was also tightly controlled by the administration of former US President Donald Trump. In particular, Brendan Carr, an FCC commissioner, shared a letter on his personal Twitter page to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai. In it, he stated that TikTok did not comply with the policies of both Apple and Google. “TikTok is not what it…
TripAdvisor named it the 25 Most Interesting Experiences in Asia 2022, including exploring Hanoi and Hoi An in Vietnam. Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice Awards is an annual award voted by travelers on TripAdvisor. The voting results are based on online votes from millions of people around the world. The voting categories are based on criteria such as trending destinations, new destinations, gourmet tourist attractions, outdoor activities, … according to Asia, Europe, … or around the world. In the category of the 25 Most Interesting Experiences in Asia, two activities, Discover Hanoi and Discover Hoi An of Vietnam, were shortlisted. Specifically, in…
After Fiona Hu left her small rural hometown at the age of 18, she worked for ten years to open a beauty salon in Guangzhou province. But after 2 years of bad business due to the impact of the pandemic, she was deeply in debt and today her dream turned into a nightmare. The 44-year-old shared: “Now I have nothing but debts.” Slowing economic growth, due to the impact of mitigation measures to prevent the Covid-19 epidemic, has led to problems for Hu’s business and financial assets. Hu and her husband struggled to pay the bills for about a year.…
The June CPI rose 3.37% year-on-year, the largest annual increase since July 2020. The consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.69% in June from the previous month, up 3.37% from the end of 2021. This is the largest annual increase since July 2020 (3.39%). † In the second quarter, the CPI rose on average by 2.96%. In 6 months, the CPI increased by 2.44% compared to the same period last year. According to the General Statistical Office for producer prices, the price index of raw materials – fuel – materials used for production rose sharply in the first half of the…
The healthcare index was analyzed and compared by CEOWORLD in 89 countries and territories with 4 component indices related to the healthcare system: infrastructure, specialists, costs and delivery capacity. drug supply and the willingness of the authorities. The care index is calculated on a scale of 100 points. The rankings also include indicators such as environment, clean water, sanitation, government’s role in sanctions or mitigating dangerous risks to public health such as smoking or sugar abuse. According to the latest CEOWORLD statistics, Korea ranks first in the world in health system quality with 78.72 points. In second and third place…