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The health ministry has proposed a ban on new-generation tobacco products, citing the negative impacts they can have on the youth as also the additional management costs they can impose. At a conference held Wednesday on solutions to prevent the negative impacts of tobacco, Tran Thi Trang, deputy head of …

Vietnam and the Philippines should expand their cooperation to areas beyond trade, investment, defense and security, National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue suggested Wednesday. Meeting with Philippines President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos in Manila, Hue said the two countries could cooperate in many fields including agriculture, science and technology, education and …

Authorities on Wednesday identified the people killed in a mass shooting at a WalmartWMT.Nstore in Chesapeake, Virginia, ranging in age from a 16-year-old boy to a 70-year-old man. A manager at the store opened fire on fellow employees in a break room, killing six people before turning the gun on …

Police of central Khanh Hoa Province has launched a criminal investigation into a food poisoning incident at a Nha Trang school, which sent over 600 students to hospital and resulted in one death. Police on Wednesday said they are looking for a potential charge of “offenses against regulations of law …

Survivors of an Indonesian earthquake that killed at least 268 people appealed for food and water Wednesday, as heavy rain and aftershocks hampered rescue efforts among the rubble of devastated villages. The calls for help came as authorities warned that debris from landslides caused by the strong quake near the …

Police in Shiga Prefecture have handed a letter of appreciation to a Vietnamese man who helped save an elderly man from drowning. Can Do Trien received the honor granted by the Police Station in Koka City on Nov. 16, Japanese news site Asahi reported. Trien, 35, was taking a walk …

A cold spell has come to northern Vietnam regions Wednesday morning, bringing the lowest temperatures in Hanoi down to 21 degrees Celsius in the coming days. Due to impacts of cold air and high-altitude winds, northeastern Vietnam regions, including Hanoi, would see rain levels between 16-100 mm over 24 hours …

PC-maker Hewlett Packard on Tuesday said it would layoff as many as 6,000 employees over the next three years as the slumping world economy continues to embroil the US tech sector. HP, which has a payroll of about 61,000 people, said it aimed to secure $1.4 billion in annual savings …

A gunman shot and killed multiple people in a Walmart store late Tuesday in the U.S. state of Virginia, police and city officials said, adding that the shooter too is dead. “We were able to find multiple fatalities and multiple injured parties,” Chesapeake Police Department officer Leo Kosinski told reporters …

People describing themselves as Foxconn workers pulled down barriers and argued with hazmat-suited authorities at a Covid-hit plant in the industrial city of Zhengzhou that belongs to the Apple Inc supplier, scenes broadcast live over the Kuaishou platform showed on Wednesday. The videos showed more than a hundred people clustered …