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Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has called for promoting international solidarity and multilateralism at the ASEAN – E.U. Business Summit in Belgium. Speaking at the annual event, which had the theme “strengthening ASEAN – E.U. trade: sustainable development for all,” on Tuesday in Brussels as part of the 45th ASEAN-EU …

The Saigon River Tunnel in HCMC between downtown District 1 and Thu Duc City is under maintenance after being used for 11 years. Work has been going on for two weeks now to fix the road surface and is scheduled to finish by month-end. It is carried out between 11 …

The Asian Development Bank trimmed its economic growth forecast for developing Asia on Wednesday, with China’s pandemic lockdowns, slowing global demand and the Ukraine war seen as limiting the region’s prospects. The Philippines-based lender cut its 2022 forecast to 4.2%, down marginally from a 4.3% projection made in September. Prospects …

The Saigon River Tunnel that connects the HCMC’s downtown District 1 with Thu Duc City is under a one-month repair after being used for 11 years. Work to repair the tunnel surface has been going on for two weeks and is scheduled to complete at the end of December. The …

U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed into law a bill granting federal protections to same-sex marriage, with a large crowd of guests gathered at the White House to celebrate the legislative milestone. Biden — who as vice president took a public stand in favor of same-sex unions well before …

Foreign clinics in HCMC, most of them Chinese, are conjuring up threats of deadly diseases to get more money out of patients. A 54-year-old man with nocturia came to a foreign clinic in District 10 to get a diagnosis. He received injections worth VND22 million ($931.22), but his condition did …

A golfer who is a deputy of the Quang Nam Province’s legislature People’s Council had hit a female caddy with his club during a dispute. Nguyen Viet Dung, 44, also chairman of the management board of the Dat Quang Group company, went to a BRG gold course in Da Nang …

Of 168 parking plots Can Tho has planned only one is under construction, forcing drivers to struggle to find parking spaces for their vehicles. Nguyen Van Thanh, 45, took his wife and children on a road trip from Ho Chi Minh City to Can Tho City late last month. After …

Northern Vietnam is forecast to be hit by its strongest cold front this winter on Friday, when temperatures in mountainous areas are expected to drop below zero degrees Celsius. The temperature in Hanoi will be 13-19 degrees on Saturday and will fall to 8-17 degrees early next week, according to …

A woman was killed when a car slammed into her while she was crossing an expressway in northern Vietnam. The accident happened at around 3:15 p.m. on December 9 when the woman was crossing the Hanoi-Lao Cai Expressway, which connects the Vietnamese capital with the mountainous resort town Sa Pa. …