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The HCM City Department of Transport has suggested a project to pilot five electric bus routes for one year. Under the project to be invested by Vingroup, five electric bus routes will start from Vinhome Grand Park to Tan Son Nhat International Airport, Saigon Bus Station, Mien Dong Station, the HCM City National University’s urban area and Emart Shopping Centre. An electric bus of Vingroup Up to 77 buses will be used for the routes. Each can accommodate 65-70 people and has the investment of VND6.5 billion (USD282,608). The subsidised ticket prices would be from VND5,000-7,000, depending on different routes. Students would enjoy the price of VND3,000. According to the Department of Transport, electric buses will help to reduce the city's air pollution. The five routes mainly link new urban areas with public places so their operations would have a minor effect on current bus routes. The Department of Transport has also proposed the subsidy the five routes during the pilot. The subsidy accounts for 44.1% out of the routes’ total operation costs. …

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The arrest of 57-year-old Ngo Van Thuy, an officer of the anti-smuggling and investigation department under the General Department of Vietnam Customs, was part of an ongoing investigation into a ring producing and trading counterfeit fuel in Mekong Delta's Vinh Long Province, busted by police last month. Officers had raided Thuy's residence and workplace in Ho Chi Minh City and seized many documents related to the case, police said Saturday. The large-scale raid occurred after police in Dong Nai received reports from locals on low quality gasoline being sold by several stations in the province. Dong Nai police detected a fake gasoline production ring and collaborated with colleagues in other southern provinces and the Ministry of Public Security to bust it. A large team of 500 police raided an islet in the middle of Hau River last month and found people producing fake fuel there. The gangsters resisted fiercely, crashing a large boat into the police vessel as they tried to escape from the islet in Vinh Long's Binh Minh District. However, police prevailed. Simultaneously, other police officers raided a series of gasoline stations in Long An, Can Tho, Dong Nai, Vung Tau and HCMC. Police have so far arrested 35 people involved in the ring, led by Phan Thanh Huu and Nguyen Huu Tu. They are being investigated for smuggling, producing and trading in counterfeit goods and illegal invoices and receipts. Investigators later found the ring had established companies and operated several gas stations to sell their counterfeit products. Members of the ring used vessels to buy gasoline from wholesalers and then moved the product to a facility on the islet in Vinh Long before using chemicals and solvents to make the 95-octane grade gasoline A95. The fake fuel was distributed to warehouses across different provinces before being retailed. According to investigators, around one million liters of fake gasoline were being provided to the market each day. Since …

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Among the group are a total of 35 Vietnamese expatriates residing in the Cambodian province of Kampong Chhnang who travelled by boat on March 4 to a border area in Hong Ngu district of Dong Thap province. Soldiers stationed at Thuong Phuoc international border gate in Dong Thap province and Vinh Xuong gate in An Giang province originally detected the group and encouraged them to return back to Cambodia. At present, the Vietnamese embassy and the overseas Vietnamese association in Cambodia are trying to support them to return to their homes in Cambodia as part of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) prevention measures. Elsewhere, soldiers working at the Quang Long international border gate in Cao Bang province on March 4 found 16 illegal immigrants attempting to cross into the country. The group were able to take advantage of drizzly conditions, fog which limited vision, in addition to the rugged mountainous terrain, in order to enter the nation illegally. They were made up of Vietnamese labourers from 11 cities and provinces nationwide who went to work in China back in October, 2020. Following their detection, the 16 illegal immigrants were brought to an isolation area as part of efforts against the potential spread of COVID-19. During the first two months the year border guards in Cao Bang province detected 3,500 illegal immigrants and placed them into quarantine. …

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