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Five middle school students from Hanoi have won a filmmaking competition organized by the British Council by beating over 750 teams from around the world. Le Kim Anh, headmistress of the Cau Giay Secondary School, said Tuesday that ninth grader Pham Duc Minh and eighth graders Nguyen Nhu Mai, Nguyen …

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh will attend the expanded G7 Summit this weekend at the invitation of his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida. It will be the third time that Vietnam joins an expanded G7 Summit, and the second time to do so per an invitation from Japan. Vietnam is one …

Flames engulfed a parking lot in HCMC’s Cu Chi District Tuesday, burning down 8 cars and resulting in VND2.2 billion ($93,800) in damage. The fire began at around 10 a.m. in a parking lot spanning over 1,000 sq.m in Phuoc Vinh An Commune. Locals tried to extinguish the flames but …

After a decade, Vietnam’s first remote sensing satellite, the VNREDSat-1, has completed 53,000 rounds around the Earth, totaling 2.4 billion km, it was announced at a ceremony in Hanoi on Tuesday. Chau Van Minh, president of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) that co-organized the event, said at …

Police in the central Thanh Hoa Province have seized deadly weapons and drugs after carrying out checks of 167,000 students, including in middle schools. More than 3,000 police officers were dispatched to 631 educational facilities after repeated instances of students fighting with each other and consuming stimulants, which have caused …

The death toll in cyclone-hit villages of Myanmar’s Rakhine state rose to at least 41 on Tuesday, local leaders told AFP. Packing winds of up to 195 kilometres (120 miles) per hour, Mocha made landfall on Sunday, downing power pylons and smashing wooden fishing boats to splinters. “We can confirm …

Around 985,000 phone numbers have been terminated after users failed to verify their information in accordance with the national database, the information ministry said. Nguyen Phong Nha, deputy head of the Vietnam Telecommunications Authority under the Ministry of Information and Communications, said telecom firms have terminated 985,000 numbers out of …

Thailand’s economy expanded faster than expected in the first quarter due to a recovery in tourism, data showed on Monday, while investors braced for political uncertainty after the opposition secured a stunning election victory on Sunday. The tourism-reliant economy’s recovery has lagged its regional peers due to COVID-19, but gathered …

A high school boy fighting thalassemia in central Vietnam has won a free ride to the British University Vietnam. The scholarship is worth more than VND1 billion (US$42,600). Vi Thanh Nhat, a 12th grader at Nghe An Ethnic Minority Boarding High School in Nghe An Province, won the Lion’s Heart …

British International School Hanoi (BIS Hanoi) has launched its academic scholarship for students aged 11 to 14 with outstanding academic performance. BIS academic scholarship is available to students aged 11 to 14 with outstanding academic ability. Photo by BIS Hanoi The scholarship program offers outstanding academic students access to world-class …