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A court in the central Nghe An Province has handed jail terms to four local men for stealing 14 dogs. Following the trial Thursday, Nguyen Dinh Phong, 30, got 12 months for “property theft” and “illegal possession of military weapons.” Vuong Van Hong, 36, got 24 months, Nguyen Dinh Quynh, …

Rescuers scoured the charred ruins of a Cambodian hotel and casino complex Friday, warning they expected to find “many more” victims of a deadly fire that forced people to jump from windows. Hundreds of people are believed to have been inside the Grand Diamond City hotel-casino, located within sight of …

The United States joined nations imposing Covid tests on travellers from China after Beijing dropped foreign travel curbs despite surging cases, but the EU’s health agency said Thursday such measures weren’t warranted in the bloc. The head of the World Health Organization, however, said the restrictions some countries were introducing …

Starting next February, connections to and from Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport will be boosted with 14 new bus routes. The city’s Department of Transport will launch the new routes on a pilot scheme. They will be operated by Hai Van International Transportation Joint Venture Company. …

The British Embassy in Hanoi and UNICEF have handed over life-saving equipment worth £500,000 (US$602,400) to assist the recovery of Vietnam’s health system. The equipment, funded by the U.K. government and delivered through UNICEF, includes 500 patient vital signs monitors and 500 syringe pumps. Vietnam’s Ministry of Health, which received …

The death toll from a fierce winter storm that gripped much of the United States over Christmas rose to at least 61 on Thursday, officials said. Erie County executive Mark Poloncarz said two more deaths had been reported in the western New York region that bore the brunt of the …

Brazilian football icon Pele, a three-time World Cup winner who is widely regarded as the greatest player of all time, died on Thursday at the age of 82 — triggering a wave of tributes from the sports world and beyond. The Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo said in a …

A Saigon real estate con man was sentenced to life in prison Thursday after swindling around VND2.4 trillion ($101.6 million) from 4,560 people. Nguyen Thai Luyen, 36, president of Alibaba, had conned thousands of unwitting Vietnamese citizens into buying fake real estate properties, the HCMC People’s Court said. Vo Thi …

Defending champions Thailand fought back from going a goal behind and seeing a player sent off to earn a 1-1 draw with Indonesia in Jakarta in the Asean Championship on Friday in a re-run of last year’s final. Sarach Yooyen’s heavily deflected strike from the edge of the area 11 …

Vietnamese students in China are thrilled their northern neighbor plans to relax its Covid lockdown policies next January. Lang Quang Du, 27, who graduated from China’s Nanhua University in 2020, was relieved to hear that China is finally loosening its Covid-19 restrictions in 2023. He is currently enrolled in Chinese-language …