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A Ba Ria-Vung Tau court has fined a man VND700 million ($29,676) for making and selling almost 9,000 boxes of beer under the popular Saigon Beer brand. Le Dinh Trung, 56, was found guilty of infringing Vietnam’s largest brewer Sabeco’s trademark Thursday. After quitting his job at the Saigon Beer, …

The EU on Thursday announced plans to push the bloc’s businesses to produce more clean technology in Europe to challenge state-backed competition from the United States and China. Brussels told European industries producing green technologies, such as solar and wind energy, that obtaining permits and manufacturing will be made easier …

The leaders of Japan and South Korea promised to turn the page on years of animosity at a meeting on Thursday, putting aside their difficult shared history and pledging to work together to counter regional security challenges. The summit between South Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol and Japan’s Fumio Kishida in …

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has called on Poland to use its good offices to overturn a European Commission IUU yellow card issued to Vietnam’s fisheries sector. At a meeting with Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Zbigniew Rau on Thursday, he said the lifting of the warning – for falling …

Two women who beat a two-year-old girl to the point of brain damage and lung injuries are now in jail. A court in Da Lat Town in Vietnam’s Central Highlands on Wednesday sentenced Vuong Nhat Thao Vy, 28, to two years, and Huynh Thi Thanh Hang, 27, to 1.5 years …

As official text messages went out from telecom firms this week asking users to verify their personal information, so did several identity-theft scam calls requesting the same data. Thuy Trang, who lives in Hanoi’s Cau Giay District, received a call from an unknown number at 7 a.m. Thursday. When she …

Police arrested 14 employees at two companies in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Binh District for threatening people who failed to pay overdue loans. Those detained work for Vietnam Thinh Vuong Debt Trading JSC and THT Law Co. Ltd. They are now being investigated for “extortion.” The arrests came after …

A former bank director in Hanoi was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday for wrongfully allowing VND360 billion ($15.27 million) in loans to an incompetent Taiwanese firm. Do Quoc Hung, former director of the BIDV Thanh Do Branch, along with four other former BIDV employees, were charged with …

A former police officer and seven former employees of telecommunications firm VNPT have received prison terms for forging police documents and selling the personal data of 1,007 people. A court in Hanoi sentenced Tran Manh Quan, a former police officer, to six years in prison Wednesday for illegally using citizens’ …

Hanoi has the second worst air quality in Southeast Asia after Pasarkemis in Indonesia, according to a 2022 annual survey by IQAir, a Swiss maker of air purifiers. The Vietnamese capital city’s air quality worsened to 40.1 micrograms of PM2.5 particles per cubic meter in 2022 from 36.2 in 2021, …