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Vietnam has around 99 million citizens now and is all set to welcome its 100 millionth citizen next year, according to the health ministry. Dr Pham Vu Hoang, deputy general director of the ministry’s Population and Family Planning department, said at a Monday meeting that the 100 millionth citizen was …

Vietnam will target 7% GDP growth, $7,500 per capita GDP, agriculture workforce reduction to less than 20% and trained workforce augmentation to 35-40% by 2030, a Party resolution says. The resolution, signed and promulgated by Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong during the 6th Plenum of the 13th Central Committee, …

The Mekong River Commission’s governing body has approved two major initiatives to improve regional efforts to monitor and protect the Mekong River. Representatives of MRC member countries Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam approved a Multi-Year Work Plan (MWP) for 2023– 2024 at a meeting in Vietnam’s southern province of Ba …

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida instructed ministers to double defense spending to about 2% of gross domestic product in five years, the defense minister said on Monday, to counter China’s growing assertiveness in the region. A panel of experts advising Kishida this month recommended broad tax measures to pay for …

A 12-year-old boy in northern Vietnam has been publicly praised after pulling an unconscious man from the tracks as a train approached. Hoang Manh Chien, a seventh grader living in Cam Thinh Ward of Cam Pha Town in Quang Ninh Province, was riding a bicycle home from his friend’s at …

A monkey in Hanoi’s Cau Giay District has been terrorizing locals, biting people and evading authorities’ grasp, but is apparently friendly to a woman who frequently feeds it. The monkey, whose species and origin remain unknown, lives among tree branches in an alley of Duy Tan Street. Locals often feed …

A survey on Covid-19 herd immunity conducted among 839 random people in Ho Chi Minh City has found more than 98% carry antibodies. The survey was carried out by the city’s Center for Disease Control in collaboration with the HCMC Hospital for Tropical Diseases and Oxford University Clinical Research Unit …

A 70-year-old woman in northern Vietnam was taken to hospital after she swallowed a stone advertised to be able to cure all diseases. Doctors at the General Hospital of Bac Giang Province said Monday that she was admitted in a state of panic and scared. Her family said she had …

Belgian police detained a dozen people and made one arrest on Sunday after Morocco’s victory over Belgium in the World Cup match in Qatar triggered riots in Brussels with a car and some electric scooters set on fire. The riots took place in several places across the Belgian capital where …

South Korea’s government plans to meet the country’s striking truckers’ union for talks on Monday for the first time since a nationwide walkout began five days ago, as supply chain glitches worsened and construction sites faced concrete shortages. With supplies of cement and fuel for gas stations running short, the …