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Traffic congestion is a major challenge for southeastern Vietnam, a key manufacturing area including HCMC, where only 50 km of expressway was completed in the last decade, PM Pham Minh Chinh said. At a Saturday conference on development of the southeastern region, which comprises Ho Chi Minh City, Dong Nai, …

Police in Hanoi have detained a 37-year-old man for killing a street vendor by slashing her throat, allegedly because her nephew banged on his door five years ago. Hoang Ngoc Chien is under investigation for murder charge. His arrest came a few hours after Hong Thu Huong, 51, was killed …

A Beijing court sentenced Canadian singer Kris Wu on Friday to 13 years in jail after finding him guilty of crimes including rape, just over a year after his arrest in China, where he was born and built a lucrative career. The court in the district of Chaoyang said investigation …

A pregnant woman and her twin daughters were killed by a truck in a traffic accident in the central Thua Thien-Hue Province on Saturday. Ngo Thi Thanh Hieu, 32, was driving her 7-year-old daughters on a motorbike when they were hit by a truck coming from behind near an intersection …

Border guards in central Vietnam have cracked down on a ring smuggling Chinese into Vietnam and then to other Southeast Asian nations. Officers at Lao Bao International Border Gate on the border of Laos and Vietnam’s Quang Tri Province on Friday transferred 11 Chinese and five Vietnamese to the province’s …

Traffic overload and rampant violations have made life dangerous for drivers and others on the HCMC-Trung Luong Expressway, the only expressway link between the city and the Mekong Delta. Thanh Hien, 29, a driver with 10 years’ experience in carrying passengers between Ho Chi Minh City and the delta, which …

HCMC police on Friday arrested two men and a woman for allegedly burgling 13 houses between the central region to the city. Nguyen Quang Hung, 43, Dao Manh Toan, 42, and his wife Pham Thi Bich Ngoc, 36, face “theft” charges. The crime police in HCMC started to investigate after …

Ukrainian authorities on Friday gradually restored power, aided by the reconnection of the country’s four nuclear plants, but millions of people were still in the dark after the most devastating Russian air strikes of the war. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pleaded with Ukrainians to use energy sparingly. “If there is electricity, …

The Biden administration has banned approvals of new telecommunications equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies (HWT.UL) and ZTE because they pose “an unacceptable risk” to U.S. national security. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Friday it had adopted the final rules, which also bar the sale or import of equipment …

NASA’s Orion spacecraft was placed in lunar orbit Friday, officials said, as the much-delayed Moon mission proceeded successfully. A little over a week after the spacecraft blasted off from Florida bound for the Moon, flight controllers “successfully performed a burn to insert Orion into a distant retrograde orbit,” the U.S. …