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A police officer in Tien Giang Province confessed after being identified as the main suspect in a case in which a woman was found dead in a river. Ngo Minh Thong (R) is escorted to the scene where he committed a murder, Jan. 4, 2023. Photo by police Ngo Minh …

Former deputy minister of industry and trade Hoang Quoc Vuong was detained for investigations into violations at state-monopoly Vietnam Electricity (EVN). Vuong, 61, was arrested Tuesday on allegations of abuse of power, spokesman for the Ministry of Public Security To An Xo said Thursday. Vuong was arrested just one day …

Beijing on Thursday voiced “strong dissatisfaction” that fighting in neighboring Myanmar had caused Chinese casualties and said it would take “all necessary measures” to protect its citizens, following reports an artillery shell had exploded across the border. Armed conflict has raged in Myanmar’s northern Shan state since October, when an …

China on Thursday slammed what it called “provocative” moves by the United States and its ally the Philippines in the South China Sea, as both sides held drills in the waters. Warships from China and the U.S. conducted rival exercises in the sea this week amid heightened tensions involving U.S. …

The gender imbalance at birth remained at a high level last year, with 112 boys born for every 100 girls, while the natural ratio is around 105/100. The information was published in the 2023 report on Population, Labor and Employment, which was released this week by the General Statistics Office of …

The teacher who was locked in by her students in northern Tuyen Quang Province received a warning for “insufficient educational conduct,” while the students were suspended for a week. The disciplinary action was announced by Tuyen Quang authorities on Wednesday, where Hang, a music teacher at the Van Phu Middle …

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has announced a “black list” of 403 websites with signs of law violation in 2023. Some of the websites are those providing online betting services. Advertising service dealers, advertising publishers, and advertisers will be banned from cooperating with the websites blacklisted and named …

A ball of flame erupted from the Japan Airlines jet before it came to a halt, after a collision with a Coast Guard plane when landing at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. Pilots on a Japan Airlines plane engulfed in flames just after all 379 passengers and crew escaped were initially unaware …

Former health minister Nguyen Thanh Long has admitted to a court he received US$2.25 million from a Covid-19 test kit-making company but denied asking for the bribe. At a trial that opened in Hanoi Wednesday, Long, 57, denied an allegation he had insinuated that Phan Quoc Viet, CEO and chairman …

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after Colorado’s top court disqualified him from the state’s Republican primary ballot for engaging in insurrection leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican 2024 presidential nomination, …