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The United Arab Emirates said on Tuesday that countries should agree to phase out fuel emissions – not the production of oil, gas and coal – at the upcoming U.N. climate change negotiations that it will host this December. The comments reflect deep divisions between nations over how to combat …

The Vietnam National Children’s Hospital in Hanoi has treated three children, including a five-year who was brought comatose, who were drugged after eating narcotics-laced cakes. Dr Nguyen Tan Hung, deputy head of the hospital’s emergency and poison control department, said the five-year-old boy was admitted also with respiratory failure, Vietnam …

Three Vietnamese have been sentenced to prison for selling bank accounts to a Malaysian conman. The Da Nang People’s Court sentenced 27-year-old Ho Van Nghia to 17 years in prison on Monday, while 33-year-old Nguyen Duy Phuong got 16 years and Nguyen Van Do, 22, got 13 years. All three …

Vietnam’s capital Hanoi will spend VND2.5 trillion (US$106.5 million) on seven “advanced and modern” grade 1-12 schools. The city People’s Committee said the seven schools will break ground next year using the municipal budget. Set for completion in the last quarter of 2025, each of the seven schools will receive …

Vietnam and Indonesia should strengthen their maritime cooperation and set up hotlines for fishers, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh told Indonesian President Joko Widodo Tuesday. At a meeting in Labuan Bajo Town in Indonesia, he said the two sides should foster commercial ties, and called on Indonesia to allow Vietnamese …

At least 21 people died on Tuesday when a bus crashed off a bridge in India, officials said, reportedly after the driver fell asleep at the wheel. The vehicle smashed through a barrier and plummeted around six metres (20 feet) onto a dry river bed south of the central city …

A Hanoi court has handed prison terms to six local men who joined a fight that killed a Vietnamese worker in Japan. Do Manh Hung, 31, Le Dinh Tuan, 36, Nguyen Huy Binh, 33, and Nguyen Luong Sang, 29, received jail terms of six years each for “intentionally inflicting injuries,” …

The Vietnam Telecommunications Authority (VNTA) said two malfunctioning undersea internet cables would be fixed this month, while another would be fixed in June. By May 3, the IA and the SMW3 undersea cables were repaired and are now functioning normally, internet service providers told the VNTA. Two cables, AAE-1 and …

Social networking firm LinkedIn announced Tuesday that it will close down its last service available in China, citing “fierce competition and a challenging macroeconomic climate”. Microsoft-owned LinkedIn was one of the few US technology companies to successfully operate a social media site in China, where the internet is heavily regulated …

Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn has bought a huge tract of land on the outskirts of Indian tech hub Bengaluru, the key Apple supplier said in a filing Tuesday as it looks to diversify production away from China. Also known by its official name, Hon Hai Precision Industry, Foxconn is the …