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Xi Jinping secured a precedent-breaking third five-year term on Friday as China’s president. Nearly 3,000 members of China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress (NPC), voted unanimously in the Great Hall of the People for Xi, 69, to be president in an election where there was no other candidate. The …

Hanoi has announced an increase in water prices for households, with the first 10 cubic meters to cost VND75,000 (US$3.15), or VND15,000 more than currently. Deputy director of its Department of Finance, Nguyen Xuan Sang, speaking Thursday at a regular meeting with the media, said the city would start raising …

A married British couple has returned to Vietnam three years after they recovered from Covid-19 in Hanoi to thank the medical workers that saved them. Dixong John Garth and his wife, Shan Coralie Barker, visited the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Hanoi on Wednesday. Barker brought along a book …

Malaysia’s anti-corruption agency on Thursday said it would charge former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin with multiple counts of corruption, a move that he called political persecution. The charges come just three months after Muhyiddin lost a closely fought general election to Anwar Ibrahim, and are likely to increase political tensions …

Several people have been killed in a shooting in a Jehovah’s Witnesses church in Hamburg, with the gunman believed to be among the dead found in the building, German police said Thursday. Shots rang out at the church in the Grossborstel area, with the first emergency made at around 2015 …

Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) and the industrial hub of Dong Nai Province have agreed to build two more bridges across the Dong Nai River, which divides the two areas. According to the agreement, the Dong Nai 2 Bridge will link Dong Nai’s Long Thanh District with Thu Duc City, …

For the first time ever, Vietnam published a white book on religion and religious policies Thursday. The 130-page book, issued by the Government Committee for Religious Affairs, includes basic information about religion in Vietnam, the Communist Party’s stance on religion, the definition of religious freedom as described in Vietnam’s Constitution, …

An indebted man in the northern province of Nam Dinh confined his 11-year-old daughter at a hotel to stage a fake kidnapping for ransom money. The father, 39-year-old Nguyen Van Dong, is currently detained, said Quynh Phu District police chief Tran Quang Thanh on Thursday. On Wednesday, Quynh Phu police …

A married British couple have returned to Vietnam three years after they recovered from Covid-19 to thank medical workers who saved them. Dixong John Garth and his wife, Shan Coralie Barker, came to the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Hanoi on Wednesday. Barker brought along a book she wrote. …

Vietnam has asked South Korea to respect historical truths after its government appealed a court ruling to compensate a victim of a massacre perpetrated by U.S.-backed South Korean soldiers. “Vietnam’s stance is to put aside the past and look towards the future, but that does not mean denying historical truths,” …