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A truck swung out of control while negotiating a curve on the Ho Chi Minh Highway in Quang Nam Province and flipped over, killing three people at around 7 a.m. Thursday. The truck, which was carrying agricultural products, was travelling from Kon Tum Province in the Central Highlands to Hanoi …

A South Korean plastic manufacturer inside a Bac Ninh industrial park went up in flames Thursday, resulting in around 4,000 m2 of workshop being burned down. The fire at the Esd Korea Vina Co. inside the Que Vo Industrial Park in the northern province began at around 3:30 a.m. Thursday. …

U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Marc E. Knapper had a working session in the central province of Quang Tri on Wednesday to discuss cooperation in handling war consequences. Receiving the diplomat, chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Vo Van Hung said the area of land contaminated with landmines in Quang Tri …

Dang Viet Ha, director of the Vietnam Register, has been arrested for allegedly taking bribes from registration centers across the country to ignore violations. Police arrested the 51-year-old on Wednesday when he was visiting Ho Chi Minh City following a raid on the Vietnam Register’s headquarters in Hanoi last week. …

China’s outbound flight bookings were at only 15% of pre-pandemic levels in the week after the country announced it would reopen its borders, despite a 192% jump from the same period last year. Low airline capacity, high air fares, new pre-flight Covid-19 testing requirements by many countries and a backlog …

The United States and Japan on Wednesday announced stepped-up security cooperation in the face of shared worries about China, and Washington strongly endorsed a major military buildup Tokyo announced last month. “We agree that the PRC is the greatest shared strategic challenge that we and our allies and partners face,” …

A U.S. labor board director has upheld Amazon.com Inc workers’ landmark union victory at a warehouse in New York, according to a decision issued Wednesday, bringing the online retailer closer to having to bargain with staff on a contract. Amazon has the right to appeal the decision to a wider …

An infant was rescued in central Ha Tinh Province Wednesday after spending hours abandoned in a ditch in the rain. Locals in Huong Son District’s Tan Thuy Village heard the cries of a baby coming from the wayside of a road, where they then found a mud-covered infant lying in …

Da Nang needs more greenspace and some of the parks it does have are falling into disrepair, residents and experts say. Covering 20 hectares in downtown Thanh Khe District, March 29 Park was all but deserted last Sunday afternoon. The playground at the park was locked up for maintenance. The …

U.S. flights were slowly beginning to resume departures and a ground stop was lifted after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scrambled to fix a system outage overnight that had forced a halt to all U.S. departing flights. The cause of the problem, which delayed thousands of flights in the United …