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Constant downpours resulting from Storm Prapiroon have caused flash floods in a mountainous district of Dien Bien Province, killing two people and leaving five others missing. Around 1 a.m. on Thursday, flash floods upstream swept through a village in Muong Pon Commune of Dien Bien District in the namesake province, …

Donald Trump launched a volley of attacks against U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris Wednesday, calling her a “radical left lunatic” in his first rally since she became the de facto Democratic Party nominee for November’s election. In a speech where he also claimed that Harris was in favor of the …

A man in northern Quang Ninh Province was detained for sending people to South Korea as tourists so that they could stay and work illegally. Le Sy Dong, 40, was detained by the police of Quang Ninh on Wednesday for organizing illegal emigration. Dong’s wife, Bui Thi Thuy Hanh, director …

An area planned for the second phase of Long Thanh airport project will have its soil be used as fill material for an expressway project connecting the Dong Nai Province and its neighbor Vung Tau City. The 187-hectare area belongs to a plot of 1,800 hectares designated for the second …

Typhoon Gaemi swept towards southern China on Thursday after killing at least two people in Taiwan, with nine sailors missing after their cargo ship sank in stormy weather. The typhoon — the strongest to hit Taiwan in eight years — had already forced authorities on the island to close schools …

Political decisions taken this year will determine whether a target to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 can be reached, the United Nations said Monday. Figures from 2023 show a drop in new infections and fatalities and improvement in access to treatment for HIV-positive patient. But while …

The number of foreign nationals living in Japan has hit a record high, according to official data released Wednesday that also showed the nation’s largest-ever yearly drop in Japanese citizens. With chronically low birth rates, Japan has the world’s second-oldest population after tiny Monaco. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has introduced …

Leaders of the United Nations (UN) and ambassadors of countries to the UN on Wednesday paid tribute to Vetnam’s Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong at the Permanent Mission of Vietnam to the UN in New York. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke highly of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s …

Boeing will plead guilty to fraud as part of a deal with the U.S. Department of Justice over two fatal 737 MAX crashes, according to a court filing Wednesday. The agreement comes after prosecutors concluded Boeing flouted an earlier settlement addressing the disasters, in which a total of 346 people …

US lawmakers voiced “concern” Wednesday over Meta’s decision to shut down CrowdTangle, a digital tool considered vital in monitoring falsehoods, in a major election year, urging the tech giant to delay the move by six months. The Palo Alto company has said CrowdTangle will be unavailable after Aug. 14 — …