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Vietnam confirms two fishermen missing off Korean coast

A pair of Vietnamese deep-sea fishers have been confirmed missing after their fishing boat sank near South Korea this week, the foreign ministry announced. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs told VnExpress that two Vietnamese nationals are among the nine fishermen missing after their boat capsized off the coast of Sinan …

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Police raid famous restaurant in Saigon

Police raided Poc Poc restaurant in HCMC on Sunday night as nearly 400 patrons, including almost 100 foreigners, danced, smoked hukkah and got high on laughing gas. All four hundred civilians present were hauled away in police vehicles. Twenty of them tested positive for having used illegal drugs. Poc Poc …

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Man arrested for growing opium garden

Police in the northern province of Bac Giang have detained a local man after finding 2,154 opium poppies in his house’s garden. Ngo Quang Tang, 61, who lives in Son Dong District, admitted to the police that he started growing those plants last November for his own use, Vietnam News …

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Indonesia 2022 GDP growth races to 9-year high on resource boom

Indonesia 2022 GDP growth races to 9-year high on resource boom

Indonesia’s economic growth climbed to its strongest in nine years last year fuelled by revived spending from the lifting of pandemic restrictions and as a global commodity boom sent exports to a record high. Southeast Asia’s largest economy gained from high global commodities prices in the aftermath of the Russia-Ukraine …

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HCMC proposes building parking lots on empty land

Ho Chi Minh City has asked the National Assembly to approve the construction of parking lots on empty land as the city currently lacks 900 ha (2,224 acres) of parking space. The suggestion has been sent to the Ministry of Planning and Investment for consideration, before being presented to the …

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