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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers on Saturday issued a statement on maintaining and promoting stability in the maritime sphere in Southeast Asia. In the statement, the ministers said they closely follow with concern the recent developments in the East Sea and reaffirmed the importance of maintaining …

A captain of an airline, along with his lover, were arrested for running a prostitution ring in HCMC that charged clients up to thousands of U.S. dollars. Captain Nguyen Tran Cao Nguyen, his lover Nguyen Thi Ly, both 41, and Huynh Le Bao Yen, 29, another manager of the ring, …

Some 770,000 cases of traffic alcohol level violations have been recorded in Vietnam this year, 1.5 times that of 2022, and more than the total 2020-2022 figure. Nguyen Quang Nhat, head of the Division of Guidance on Propaganda, Investigation and Resolution of Traffic Accidents at the Department of Traffic Police, …

A Chinese restaurateur in HCMC has been accused of hiring 200 women to act as prostitutes for foreigners at his restaurant. Zhang Lei, 38, along with seven others, was arrested by HCMC police on Saturday to be investigated for procuring prostitutes. Police seized around VND22 billion ($906,470) at his residence, …

Jubilant crowds will bid farewell to the hottest year on record Sunday, closing a turbulent 12 months marked by clever chatbots, climate crises and wrenching wars in Gaza and Ukraine. The world’s population — now over eight billion — will see out the old and usher in the new, with …

Vehicles will be banned from entering 10 downtown HCMC streets from Sunday afternoon for New Year’s Eve celebrations and firework shows, the transport department said. The fireworks shows are expected to last 15 minutes from midnight on Jan. 1, 2024, at two locations: the beginning of the Saigon River tunnel …

North Korea plans to launch three more spy satellites in 2024 as part of efforts to ramp up its military, state media reported Sunday. Pyongyang successfully put a spy satellite into orbit last month and has since claimed it was providing images of major U.S. and South Korean military sites. …

China’s factory activity decline deepened in December, official data showed Sunday, as Beijing rounded off a year marked by its stuttering economic recovery from the pandemic. The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) — a key measure of factory output — stood at 49.0 in December, below the 50-point mark …

A 30-year-old man in Hanoi is now infertile after trying to increase his muscle mass by abusing steroids. The patient, unnamed, frequently goes to the gym and has been using multiple drugs and supplements to increase his muscle mass for several years, Phan Chi Thanh, a doctor at the National …

Nearly 400 Vietnamese citizens stranded in northern Myanmar due to the armed conflict there were repatriated on Saturday morning. The repatriation effort was a collaborative undertaking between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), competent agencies at home and Vietnamese representative offices in the region. This was the second repatriation following …