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The trial of former health minister Nguyen Thanh Long for allegedly taking bribes to let a company sell Covid-19 test kits at inflated prices opens in Hanoi Wednesday. He faces charges of accepting bribes worth VND51 billion (US$2.25 million). Former chairman of Hanoi Chu Ngoc Anh, former Hai Duong Province …

The chairman of the People’s Committee of the Central Highlands’ Lam Dong Province has been detained for allegedly receiving bribes involving an ecotourism site. Tran Van Hiep, 58, has been arrested by anti-corruption police forces for receiving bribes, spokesman for the Ministry of Public Security To An Xo announced Tuesday. …

The average income of Vietnamese workers increased VND459,000 a month last year, or 6.9%, compared to 2022. The figure stood at around VND7.1 million ($291.82) by the end of 2023. Male workers’ average monthly income was VND8.1 million, and female workers’ was VND6 million, according to reports from the General …

Five people aboard a Japan coast guard aircraft died Tuesday when it hit a Japan Airlines passenger plane on the ground in a fiery collision at Tokyo’s Haneda airport. This photo provided by Jiji Press shows a Japan Airlines plane on fire on a runway of Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on …

A weak mass of cold air will come to northern Vietnam starting Wednesday, triggering rains and plunging average daytime temperatures by 3 degrees Celsius. Northern Vietnam has been enjoying sunny days for the past week, with temperatures in Hanoi at around 26 degrees in the afternoon on Monday, before falling …

HCMC police have detained a South Korean man for hiring 200 women to offer sex services to foreigners at his restaurant. Hwang Chang-Nam, 43, and four Vietnamese managers at the Joy restaurant on Nguyen Thai Binh Street of District 1 for brokering sex services, police said Monday. The arrest came after …

The Philippines is hopeful of being taken off the money laundering ‘grey list’ of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) of this year, the country’s Anti-Money Laundering Council said on Tuesday. A flag of the Philippines. Illustration photo by Freepik The FATF, an intergovernmental organization combating money laundering and terrorism …

At least 30 people were killed after a powerful earthquake hit Japan on New Year’s Day, with rescue teams on Tuesday struggling to reach isolated areas where buildings had been toppled, roads wrecked and power cut to tens of thousands of homes. A road is cracked in Shika Town, Ishikawa …

Bitcoin stormed above $45,000 on Tuesday for the first time since April 2022 as the world’s biggest cryptocurrency started the New Year with a bang buoyed by optimism around possible approval of exchange-traded spot bitcoin funds. A representation of a Bitcoin is seen among woodblocks. Illustration photo by Freepik Bitcoin …

A driver in northern Bac Giang Province repeatedly rammed into a police car and resisted law enforcement, forcing officers to break the windshield to incapacitate him. A traffic police team was checking drivers’ alcohol levels on Hoang Hoa Tham Street at around 8 p.m. when officers signaled for a pickup …