Bloomberg Police detained Vietnam Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister To Anh Dung as part of an investigation into bribery accusations while he organised repatriation flights for Vietnamese abroad during the pandemic, the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement on its website. A former officer of the public security ministry’s immigration department and an officer at the health ministry ...

Bloomberg As Russian forces shift their military focus to the east, some Ukrainians who fled their homes early in the invasion are venturing back to see what’s left of their lives and whether they can start to rebuild. Daryna Tarasenko, a 27-year-old portrait photographer who abandoned her Kyiv apartment on the day of the February 24 attack, returned last week ...

  Bloomberg New Zealand’s central bank delivered its biggest interest-rate increase in 22 years, signaling that policy makers around world may need to step up efforts to get inflation under control. The Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee lifted the official cash rate by half a percentage point to 1.5% in Wellington, the first time it has delivered an increase of ...