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Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh asked China to hasten the opening of its market for Vietnamese agricultural products. During a dialogue with his Chinese counterpart Li Qiang, Chinh requested that China continue providing opportunities for Vietnamese commerce and imports, particularly for Vietnamese produce, the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported …

A 57-kilometer highway will be built to link the central Khanh Hoa, Lam Dong and Ninh Thuan provinces at a cost of VND1.9 trillion (US$81 million). It will be built between Khanh Vinh District in Khanh Hoa, home to Nha Trang, and Bac Ai District in Ninh Thuan, renowned for …

The food for students at an international preschool in Hanoi has come under fire as parents found the lunch meals unacceptable in both quantity and quality. Nguyen Thi Huyen, the mother of a five-year-old girl who is studying at a branch of American Montessori International School (AMIS) on Tran Huu …

Former deputy foreign minister To Anh Dung was accused of receiving bribes worth VND21.5 billion ($916,044) in 37 different occasions relating to the Covid-19 repatriation flight scandal. Investigators from the Ministry of Public Security on Monday pressed for Dung to be charged with receiving bribes. Others facing the same charge …

Australia banned TikTok on Tuesday from all federal government-owned devices over security concerns, becoming the latest U.S.-allied country to take action against the Chinese-owned video app. The ban underscores growing worries that China could use the Beijing-based company, owned by ByteDance Ltd, to harvest users’ data to advance its political …

A former Hanoi company chairman’s trial, for allegedly defrauding over $100 million from more than 2,500 people by selling them phony “investments”, has been rescheduled as hundreds of his accusers did not show up. Pham Thanh Hai, former chairman of the International Trade, Investment and Development Technology Company (IDT), was …

President Vo Van Thuong hosted a ceremony Tuesday morning to welcome Australian Governor-General David Hurley, who is on a state visit to Vietnam. The ceremony took place at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, making Governor-General Hurley the first guest that President Thuong has received since he took office on March …

It is almost midnight, and above a semi-abandoned Bangkok shopping center, Ghost Radio is on air. Rapid-fire comments ping across the studio’s screens as thousands tune in online to hear callers describe their encounters with Thailand’s supernatural. Belief in spirits runs deep in the kingdom, which has a celebrated canon …

Developing Asia will grow faster than previously thought this year, underpinned by a stronger-than-projected rebound in China, but risks from global banking turmoil could weigh on the outlook, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Tuesday. Developing Asia, which groups together 46 economies in the Asia-Pacific, is forecast to grow …

Finland will become a member of NATO on Tuesday, completing a historic security policy shift triggered by Russia’s war with Ukraine, while neighbor Sweden is kept in the waiting room. The military alliance will welcome Finland as its 31st member in a flag-raising ceremony at NATO headquarters on the outskirts …