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The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has announced a “black list” of 403 websites with signs of law violation in 2023. Some of the websites are those providing online betting services. Advertising service dealers, advertising publishers, and advertisers will be banned from cooperating with the websites blacklisted and named …

A ball of flame erupted from the Japan Airlines jet before it came to a halt, after a collision with a Coast Guard plane when landing at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. Pilots on a Japan Airlines plane engulfed in flames just after all 379 passengers and crew escaped were initially unaware …

Former health minister Nguyen Thanh Long has admitted to a court he received US$2.25 million from a Covid-19 test kit-making company but denied asking for the bribe. At a trial that opened in Hanoi Wednesday, Long, 57, denied an allegation he had insinuated that Phan Quoc Viet, CEO and chairman …

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after Colorado’s top court disqualified him from the state’s Republican primary ballot for engaging in insurrection leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican 2024 presidential nomination, …

Two explosions killed nearly 100 people and wounded scores at a ceremony in Iran on Wednesday to commemorate commander Qassem Soleimani who was killed by a U.S. drone in 2020, Iranian officials said, blaming unspecified “terrorists.” Iranian state television reported a first and then a second blast after 20 minutes …

Senior government officials must not be hungry for fame or power, a draft decree by the home affairs ministry cautions. The levels in the chain of authority the decree seeks to address run from deputy ministers, department heads down to department deputy directors, among others. They are expected to have …

CT Group has proposed to invest US$9.98 billion in a high-speed railway between Ho Chi Minh City and Mekong Delta’s capital Can Tho City. In a proposal sent to the government, the HCMC-based multi-sector corporation said it wants to implement the project under the public-private partnership format. The railway would …

Around 15,400 people will be selected to work in South Korea in the first wave of recruitment this year, 3,000 more compared to the first wave in 2023. The workers will go to South Korea under the Employment Permit System (EPS), Dang Huy Hong, director of the Center of Overseas …

Police in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak have arrested a local man accused of running a loan shark ring to trick students who needed money into buying mobile phones. Tran Huy Quoc, 28, is now being investigated for making usurious loans to 18 students in Ea Kar District, …

CT Group has proposed to invest VND9.98 billion (US$408,200) in a high-speed railway between Ho Chi Minh City and Mekong Delta’s capital Can Tho City. In a proposal sent to the government, the HCMC-based multi-sector corporation said it wants to implement the project under the public-private partnership format. The railway …