To Anh Dung, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, instructed his subordinates to include friendly companies in the list and implementation plan of "combo flights" and received a total of VND21.5 billion in bribes.
The Party Central Committee’s Secretariat decided to expel two senior officials, including Deputy Foreign Minister To Anh Dung, from the Party, during a meeting chaired by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on September 27.
A department head at the Government Office was arrested on September 20 on the charge of receiving bribes in connection with the case at the Consular Department under the Foreign Ministry.
Two repatriation flights bringing home nearly 350 Vietnamese citizens the US touched down in Van Don International Airport in the northern province of Quang Ninh on September 12.
The central coastal province of Binh Dinh and Da Nang City plan to offer repatriation flights to bring home their local residents who are stranded in Southern virus-hit areas to ensure the safety amid the prevailing pandemic.
The national flag carrier, Vietnam Airlines (VNA) has officially received an allowance from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), an agency of the US Department of Homeland Security to operate repatriation flights to bring home Vietnamese citizens.
The level of preventing and controlling the Covid-19 outbreak at Van Don International Airport in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh has been raised to the highest point to keep passengers and employees safe after its reopening on March 3.
From now until June 15, there would be around 17 repatriation flights sending Vietnamese citizens home; thereby, the Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) requested local airports to continue strengthening cooperation in the Covid-19 pandemic prevention and control, cross-infection fight in the community.
