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A company hired to cut down a tree grown by a family in Da Nang had to compensate the family VND12 million ($495) for cutting it down without warning. Police of Hoa Khanh Nam District on Wednesday summoned representatives of the Phuoc Ly Xanh company and the family at house …

Vietnamese police have issued arrest warrants for six more people involved in the terrorist attacks at government offices in the Central Highlands’ Dak Lak Province that killed nine people in June. Dak Lak Police issued the warrants on Thursday against the five men aged between 31 and 63, for terrorism. …

The coast guards of Vietnam and China began their joint patrol on the waters adjacent to the demarcation line in the Gulf of Tonkin on Wednesday. This is the second joint patrol this year and the seventh since the Vietnam-China agreement on fishery cooperation in the Gulf of Tonkin expired …

Two Asian black bears were rescued from a household in the southern province of Binh Duong on Friday and are being transported to the rescue center in Tam Dao National Park. The bears, now named Bonnie and Clyde, were micro-chipped and kept in the family for nearly 20 years. Binh …

Hundreds of dancers twirl in unison by a riverside in northeastern China, thrusting their hips and shimmying their shoulders in a routine that has taken the country by storm.     ‘Happy Dancing’ routine boosts fitness in fast-aging China ‘Happy Dancing’ routine boosts fitness in fast-ageing China

The Dau Giay – Phan Thiet Expressway was flooded early Saturday following heavy downpours, leaving vehicles stranded. By around 2 a.m. there was no way for the water to drain on either side and began instead to flood the low-lying section in Ham Tan District in Binh Thuan Province. Some …

Elon Musk said on Friday monthly users of social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, reached a “new high” and shared a graph that showed the latest count as over 540 million. Musk’s post on X about the user figures comes as the company goes through organizational changes and …

The United States unveiled a Taiwan weapons aid package worth up to $345 million on Friday, a move likely to anger China even as the Biden administration declined to publicly provide details on the arms in the package. Congress authorized up to $1 billion worth of Presidential Drawdown Authority weapons …

State President Vo Van Thuong visited the Holy See on Thursday and the two sides reached an agreement on the status of the Resident Papal Representative in Vietnam. During meetings between President Vo Van Thuong and Pope Francis, along with the Vatican’s secretary of state Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the two …

The reopening of Australia’s borders to international students after the pandemic has triggered an exodus from Bhutan, as young people seek opportunities abroad amid growing economic unhappiness in the landlocked Himalayan kingdom. Student migration to Australia from Bhutan has soared, with over 12,000 long-term arrivals moving there in the 11 …