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Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and new Lao Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone agreed to increase economic partnership and support each other in post-pandemic recovery on Wednesday. During a talk at the Lao Prime Minister’s Office in Vientiane, Chinh and Siphandone affirmed that the two countries have always attached the highest …

Two men were detained after stealing wires from power stations in Dak Lak Province, which resulted in a power surge that damaged electrical appliances in 80 local homes. Le Lai, 28, and Hoang Trung Thong, 41, were detained by police of Buon Ma Thuot Town in the Central Highlands province …

A man in Dak Lak Province in the Central Highlands handed an elephant over to an animal rescue center and was given VND700 million ($29,852) as support money. Y Khun (which means “lucky”) is a 40-year-old elephant that’s been raised by Dang Van Long’s family in Dak Lak’s Lak District …

“The Fabelmans,” Steven Spielberg’s movie inspired by his teen years, and dark comedy “The Banshees of Inisherin” landed the top movie awards at the Golden Globes on Tuesday as Hollywood returned to a show that had been knocked off television by scandal. “The Fabelmans” was named best movie drama at …

A bus plunged into a canal in southern Vietnam after a passenger attempted to steal the driver’s phone and threatened to attack him. As the 40-seat passenger bus was moving in Dong Thap Province on Tuesday night, a passenger named Le Hiep Hoa, 37, approached the driver, Phan Thanh Tung, …

Tens of thousands of people were under evacuation orders in California on Tuesday as the state was ravaged by the latest in a barrage of storms that have left at least 17 people dead. Torrential downpours caused flash flooding, closed key highways, toppled trees and swept away drivers and passengers …

Chinese display maker BOE Technology Group Co Ltd, a supplier of both Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, plans to invest a substantial sum to build two factories in Vietnam, two people familiar with the matter said. The investment may total up to $400 million, one of them said. …

The UNDP stands ready to support the Vietnamese government in the detailed formulation and implementation of the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) resource mobilization plan in 2023, UNDP Resident Representative in Vietnam Ramla Al Khalidi said. “This includes our proven technical assistance services to the Governments in green transition/NAMA projects, …

A Vietnamese artist said his Reddit account has been banned following accusations one of his artworks was AI-generated. Nguyen Hoang Minh Anh, aka Ben Moran, 30, who works in a Hanoi art studio, last month posted one of his works on r/Art subreddit, which has over 22 million members. Anh …

Transgender Indonesian woman Chika Ananda Putrie wakes every morning in her decrepit rented room in a Jakarta slum, worried for her safety because of her gender identity. She saw some of her worst fears come true last month, when the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, and its third-largest democracy, banned people …