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All four Vietnamese students claimed medals, three golds and one silver, at the International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) 2023, the Ministry of Education and Training said on Tuesday. The gold medals went to Dinh Cao Son from Ha Tinh Province’s Ha Tinh High School for Gifted Students, Nguyen Kim Giang from …

A super typhoon swept towards the northern Philippines on Tuesday, the country’s weather agency said, triggering evacuation orders for coastal communities expected to bear the brunt of the powerful storm. Super Typhoon Doksuri was packing maximum sustained winds of 185 kilometers an hour (115 miles per hour) as it headed …

The Ho Chi Minh City police have arrested three South Korean men for allegedly running a prostitution ring out of a restaurant in District 1. Kim Tea Hyung, 48, Cha Jinyoung, 46, and Lee Hyun Jun, 25, are being questioned for “brokering sex services,” they said Monday. The arrests followed …

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on Monday issued a document guiding the use of vaccines against African swine fever (ASF) nationwide. The document sent to provincial and city People’s Committees said that localities can use the vaccines based on the local disease situation, and will evaluate the …

Taiwan canceled parts of its annual military drills on Tuesday as authorities step up preparations for what they say could be the most damaging typhoon to hit the island in nearly four years. Typhoons are common at this time of year near Taiwan but the subtropical island has not been …

Vietnamese Ambassador to the U.S. Nguyen Quoc Dung believed the two nations’ relationship will continue to reach new heights, serving their people’s interests and contributing to regional and global development. Speaking in an interview with the Vietnam News Agency on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Vietnam-U.S. comprehensive …

China’s top leaders said the Chinese economy was facing “new difficulties and challenges” in a meeting of the 24-person Politburo on Monday. The country’s highest-ranking officials gather annually at the end of July to review the economic situation before their traditional summer break in August. In 2023, they met as …

Vietnam’s President Vo Van Thuong suggested Austria have a more favorable lending policy and prioritize Vietnam in its official development assistance (ODA) funding when holding talks with his counterpart Van der Bellen. Thuong and his Austrian counterpart discussed measures to deepen the bilateral friendship and multifaceted cooperation during their talks …

Many high-school seniors in Vietnam are on tenterhooks as the IELTS scores they invested so much time and energy into are not high enough to get them into their dream schools. Last December, Cao Thu Ha, a 12th grader in the northern province of Bac Giang, which neighbors Hanoi, decided …

Forty-five people in Quang Nam Province, including three Chinese, were arrested for running an usury ring that trapped over a million people in some VND20 trillion ($844.77 million) of debt. Following a monthlong investigation, 45 people were detained by police in the central Vietnamese province for multiple crimes, including usury, …