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North Korea fired three ballistic missiles toward the sea east of the Korean Peninsula on Saturday, the South Korean military said. The launches were the latest in an unprecedented number of missile tests conducted by North Korea this year, as Pyongyang presses on with weapons development amid speculation it could …

The Government Inspectorate has transferred to the police three cases involving possible fraud at the Ministry of Health in procuring Covid medical supplies in 2020-21. The Ministry of Public Security would investigate borrowing and procurement of medical equipment by the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, which shows signs …

The government plans to send 180-200 officials aged under 45 abroad for training by 2025. The program is meant for people in positions like deputy chairperson of people’s councils and people’s committees. Every year there will be four training sessions of two weeks with 15-17 people going abroad each time …

Seven pangolins, including two critically endangered yellow pangolins, have been rescued while being smuggled from Ho Chi Minh City to northern Vietnam. Police in central Thanh Hoa Province on Wednesday detected suspicious signs on a truck traveling from HCMC to Thai Nguyen Province and so stopped it for inspection. The …

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam would stop being a member of the 13th Central Party Committee following a Friday vote by the Central Party Committee. No further explanation was given regarding the decision. Also on Friday, deputy prime minister Pham Binh Minh also lost his membership in the Politburo …

Standing Deputy Prime Minister and former foreign minister Pham Binh Minh will no longer be a member of the Politburo or a member of the 13th Central Party Committee following a Friday vote by the committee. Previously on Tuesday, the Politburo and the Secretariat said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’s …

Sleeper buses will be banned from downtown areas in Ho Chi Minh City from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. starting January 10, 2023, to ensure traffic safety and order. In a statement sent recently to relevant agencies, the city’s administration said the purpose is to eliminate unlicensed buses and stations …

President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a $1.66 trillion bill funding the U.S. government for fiscal year 2023, the White House said in a statement. Biden signed the bill, which passed Congress last week, while vacationing on the Caribbean island of St. Croix. The legislation includes record military funding, emergency …

Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd estimated on Friday its 2022 revenue remained flat, suggesting that its sales decline due to U.S. sanctions had come to a halt. Despite sales increasing a mere 0.02%, rotating chairman Eric Xu struck an upbeat tone in the company’s annual New Year’s letter, …

Several Vietnamese were among those injured or killed in a fire at a casino-hotel complex in Cambodia, a Cambodian official has confirmed. The fire broke out at about midnight on Wednesday at Grand Diamond City, a casino and hotel in the town of Poipet, near the border with Thailand, according …