Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — January 1

Enjoy your holiday and please spend some time reading what is in the news today!

Society

-- According to the observation of Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reporters, serious traffic jam occurred on multiple major roads in Hanoi on Friday night since people chose to stay in the capital city to welcome the New Year.

-- Phan Van Mai, deputy secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, on Friday said five people in Ho Chi Minh City have been suspected to carry the Omicron variant.

-- Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport will conduct COVID-19 rapid tests on all passengers arriving at the airdome starting Saturday, according to the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control (HCDC).

-- The Ministry of Transport has asked the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City to implement measures to prevent COVID-19 transmission risks from passengers on regular international commercial flights to the city.

-- On Friday night, a cold front resulted in low temperatures in northern Vietnamese provinces, while in some mountainous areas, the mercury fell below 13 degrees Celsius.

-- Police in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday arrested and initiated legal proceedings against Tran Thi Hong Gam, general director of Bao Long Real Estate Investment Joint Stock Company, and her husband for appropriating VND114 billion (US$2,6 million).

Lifestyle

-- Authorities in northern Yen Bai Province held a ceremony on Friday to announce the decision and to receive the certificate recognizing Mu Cang Chai Terraced Fields as a Special National Relic Site and the H'mong "Le mung lua moi" (new paddy crop celebration) as a national intangible cultural heritage.

World News

-- The Omicron variant dampened New Year festivities around much of the world, cancelling celebrations at Paris's Arc de Triomphe and the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, although Cape Town rang in 2022 with the lifting of a nighttime curfew after two years of COVID-19 restrictions, Reuters reported.

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