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Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security has detained six people for attacking two commune offices in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, killing several police officers and civilians. The Ministry of Public Security said that an unidentified group of people used guns to attack the offices of Ea Tieu and …

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev canceled his official visit to Vietnam set for June 11-13 due to a major wildfire in his country. Due to the fire in Kazakhstan’s Abay province, the Kazakh president postponed his official visit to Vietnam and wishes visit at a more suitable time, Vietnam’s Ministry of …

A middle-school teacher in Ho Chi Minh City’s Nha Be District has quit after a woman accused him of molesting his female students. Ho Tan Minh, office chief of the municipal Department of Education and Training, said Friday that a male teacher at Nguyen Binh Khiem Secondary School has “recognized …

China’s assertion that its survey vessel group found in Vietnamese waters had operated legally in the South China Sea is patently false, the Vietnamese foreign ministry stated Saturday. At a press conference on June 6, spokesman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Wang Wenbin said China had sovereignty over “the …

Hanoi and other northern localities have been suffering from intermittent blackouts this month, most of them unannounced. For people living in some places in Phu Dien Ward in Hanoi’s Bac Tu Liem District, June 5 was the first day of the summer when a power outage occurred. Hong Khanh, who …

The four Indigenous children who had been missing for more than a month in the Colombian Amazon rainforest after a small plane crash have been found alive, President Gustavo Petro announced Friday. “A joy for the whole country! The 4 children who were lost 40 days ago in the Colombian …

The Ministry of National Defense is working on amending the 2016 Law on Military Service to increase the number of conscripts and reduce their service period. Defense minister Phan Van Giang said at the National Assembly Friday that the number of people reaching the age of military service is high, …

Hope Foundation and Sanofi Vietnam have started building toilets in two schools in the remote Dong Van District in the northern mountain province of Ha Giang. Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony for the toilets at Ta Phin Secondary & High School and Sinh Lung Primary & Secondary School on Thursday, …

El Nino has officially returned and is likely to yield extreme weather later this year, from tropical cyclones spinning toward vulnerable Pacific islands to heavy rainfall in South America to drought in Australia and in some parts of Asia. After three years of the La Nina climate pattern, which often …

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Chinanext week for long-delayed talks aimed at stabilizing tense relations,and a U.S. official said he is expected to be there on June 18. Reuters reported on Wednesday that Blinken would travel to China in the coming weeks, citing an official who …