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An 8-year-old girl suffering from fever, vomiting and abdominal distension led doctors to remove a large amount of hair, straw fibers and thread from her body. The patient was transferred from a hospital in the Mekong Delta’s Tien Giang Province to HCMC. During the journey, she developed breathing difficulties and …

This glass bridge received a Guinness World Record for its length in 2022, and has drawn visitors for the breathtaking views it offers.

The 13th-tenure Party Central Committee (PCC) held a meeting in Hanoi on Friday afternoon to discuss personnel affairs. The PCC decided to propose personnel and gave opinions so that the Politburo nominates candidates for leadership positions of some state agencies for the 2021-2026 tenure in line with regulations. The committee …

Southeast Asia is among the regions most prone to natural disasters, but a new analysis released Thursday shows its people also feel the best equipped to deal with them. It seems logical that the countries in and around the Pacific Ring of Fire, vulnerable to earthquakes, typhoons, storm surges and …

The Politburo has directed all government levels to enhance students’ foreign language skills, gradually making English a second language in schools as part of education reforms to meet integration demands. The Politburo, the key decision-making body of the Communist Party responsible for setting and guiding major policies and strategies in …

A woman was drive for approximately one kilometer atop a car hood in Ho Chi Minh City early Thursday morning following a traffic altercation. The incident occurred around 2 a.m. on Dong Ho Street in Tan Binh District. Pham Thi Thuy Van and a friend had parked their motorbike to …

Political neophyte Paetongtarn Shinawatra won the backing of parliament to become Thailand’s youngest prime minister on Friday, only a day after she was thrust into the spotlight amid an unrelenting power struggle between the warring elites. The 37-year-old daughter of divisive political heavyweight Thaksin Shinawatra passed the required threshold of …

Kamala Harris’s campaign said Thursday that she would debate her Republican rival Donald Trump twice, while their running mates would do so once, seeking to draw a line under weeks of election brinkmanship. The two camps had already agreed to one presidential debate on September 10 and a vice-presidential face-off …

The Nhon – Hanoi Station metro service has attracted 390,000 passengers in its first week of operation. To put this in perspective, this was 2.3 times the number of people using the Cat Linh – Ha Dong line, also in Hanoi, during the same period. Between Aug. 8 and 15 …

A 100-kg wartime bomb was discovered by workers at Viet Tri Port in the northern province of Phu Tho this week, measuring 40 cm in diameter and 1.5 m in length. According to authorities of Ben Got Ward, where the bomb was found on Wednesday, it is the type of …