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North Korea plans to launch three more spy satellites in 2024 as part of efforts to ramp up its military, state media reported Sunday. Pyongyang successfully put a spy satellite into orbit last month and has since claimed it was providing images of major U.S. and South Korean military sites. …

China’s factory activity decline deepened in December, official data showed Sunday, as Beijing rounded off a year marked by its stuttering economic recovery from the pandemic. The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) — a key measure of factory output — stood at 49.0 in December, below the 50-point mark …

A 30-year-old man in Hanoi is now infertile after trying to increase his muscle mass by abusing steroids. The patient, unnamed, frequently goes to the gym and has been using multiple drugs and supplements to increase his muscle mass for several years, Phan Chi Thanh, a doctor at the National …

Nearly 400 Vietnamese citizens stranded in northern Myanmar due to the armed conflict there were repatriated on Saturday morning. The repatriation effort was a collaborative undertaking between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), competent agencies at home and Vietnamese representative offices in the region. This was the second repatriation following …

China has expelled nine military officials from its parliament, including four generals of the army’s strategic missile unit, in a sweeping reshuffle following the appointment of a new defense minister. The decision, announced late on Friday by the state news agency Xinhua, came after a meeting of the Central Committee …

The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha has been asked to verify the origin of the so-called “Buddha hair sarira” that drew thousands of worshipers to a pagoda recently. The Government Committee for Religious Affairs on Friday said there have been reports of the Ba Vang Pagoda in the northern province of Quang …

A Vietnamese-American realtor has been sentenced to life for forging documents to sell nearly 80 apartments and embezzle VND309 billion (US$12.7 million) from 50 victims. A HCMC court convicted Vu Bao Trinh, 50, owner of Nam Thi Real Estate Co. Ltd, for “fraudulent appropriation of assets.” To Van Chi Tam, …

For the past two weeks, Linh, 35, has had to turn on humidifiers and air purifiers 24/7 to get a reprieve from her sore throat and congested nose as air quality in Hanoi falls to abysmal levels. Linh’s family of five in Dong Da District constantly encounters respiratory problems. Linh’s …

A businessman was imprisoned for 25 years Friday for abuse of power and fraud in a case related to making a new Covid-19 test kit. Besides Phan Quoc Viet, CEO and chairman of Viet A Company, the Hanoi Military Court also sentenced several officials from the science and defense ministries …

A group representing major passenger airlines on Friday urged U.S. transportation officials to do more to address the impact of private planes and air traffic controller staffing shortages on holiday flight delays and cancelations. An aircraft from American airline United Airlines. Photo from United Airlines’ Instagram Airlines for America, a …