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Vietnam took the lead at the first Abu Reikhan Beruniy International Chemistry Olympiad after all of its eight students won medals, four golds and four silvers. The four golds were earned by Do Phu Quoc from Quang Nam Province’s Le Thanh Tong High School for Gifted Students, Nguyen Nguyen Hai …

Boeing expects the number of commercial planes in service around the world to double in the next 20 years, according to estimates published on Sunday, anticipating a slightly larger increase than competitor Airbus. The American aircraft manufacturer estimates 48,575 planes will be in service in 2042, compared with 24,500 last …

All 120 people onboard a ferry that caught fire at sea in central Philippines on Sunday have been rescued, the coast guard said. The M/V Esperanza Star, which was carrying 65 passengers and 55 officers and crew members, caught fire while sailing from Siquijor island in the south to nearby …

Indonesia has ordered 13 long-range military radars from Thales to boost airspace surveillance efforts across its immense archipelago, the French manufacturer and state-owned Indonesian defense firm PT Len Industri said Sunday. The Ground Master 400 Alpha (GM400a) radars will allow the Indonesian military to “benefit from a single air picture …

The Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) and the People’s Committee of central Thua Thien-Hue Province held a ceremony Saturday to inaugurate Terminal 2 of Phu Bai International Airport. Nguyen Hoang Anh, Chairman of the Commission for the Management of State Capital at Enterprises, said the operation of the terminal will …

Y Dun Bkrong, 19, and two others were taken hostage with guns held to their heads by assailants who attacked People’s Committee offices in Dak Lak last week. In his small home in Cu Kuin District on Saturday, Dun stared an empty stare when someone mentioned the armed groups that …

HCMC police have detained a man on charges of operating three loan shark companies and pocketing over VND4 trillion (US$170 million). Latvian Aigars Plivčs, 38, is now being investigated for usury in civil transactions. Police said Plivčs was an employee of Sun Finance Group, which is headquartered in Latvia, to …

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Beijing on Sunday, the first top American diplomat to visit China in five years, amid frosty bilateral ties and dim prospects for any breakthrough on the long list of disputes between the world’s two largest economies. Having postponed a February trip after …

On the shores of a reservoir that feeds one of Vietnam’s biggest hydropower plants, Dang Thi Phuong points at the cracked ground where the fish that help her earn a living normally swim. After a series of heat waves, including a record high in May, and an unprecedented drought, rivers …

Ben Thanh Station, the central station of HCMC’s nearly-completed first metro line, still lacks emergency exits due to the delayed construction of a connected skyscraper. The HCMC Management Authority for Urban Railways (MAUR), the main investor of the Ben Thanh – Suoi Tien metro line, has proposed to the municipal …