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Xi Jinping secured a third leadership term Sunday and introduced new Politburo Standing Committee. Shanghai Communist Party chief Li Qiang followed Xi onto the stage at the Great Hall of the People as the new leadership team was introduced, meaning he is likely to succeed Li Keqiang as premier when …

The Vietnam Consulate General in Cambodia has coordinated with Cambodian authorities the return of 171 Vietnamese citizens rescued from a gambling firm in the neighboring country. The Vietnamese citizens who were coerced into working for an online gambling company in Samrong City, Oddar Meancheay Province, were rescued by Cambodian authorities …

Tens of thousands of protesters in six German cities gathered on Saturday to demand a more just distribution of government funds to deal with rising energy prices and living costs. Protesters marched in Berlin, Duesseldorf, Hannover, Stuttgart, Dresden and Frankfurt-am-Main, holding signs bearing slogans on everything from lowering inflation to …

Dietrich Mateschitz, the Austrian billionaire founder and owner of energy drink company Red Bull, died on Saturday at the age 78 after a serious illness with cancer. His death was confirmed by the championship-leading Red Bull Formula One team. The Styrian-born entrepreneur built a global empire around the energy drink …

China’s ruling Communist Party amended its constitution on Saturday, further cementing President Xi Jinping’s power ahead of what is expected to be his precedent-breaking third term as party general secretary. The party constitution, or charter, is a document of ultimate authority by which all 96 million party members must abide, …

Vietnam should announce an end of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country to save medical resources, a doctor proposed Saturday. At a National Assembly session Saturday morning, Nguyen Lan Hieu, director of the Hanoi Medical University Hospital, requested that the government announce a shift in its Covid-19 fight, introducing clear …

Two truck collided heads-on in central Vietnam’s Thanh Hoa Province Saturday morning, killing both drivers. Chu Van Hung, 34, was driving a truck at 4 a.m. when it collided with a tractor driven by Nguyen Dinh Cuong, 39, approaching from the opposite direction. Both vehicles were thrown off the road, …

Flooding causes HCMC’s Thu Duc City annual losses of US$54 million, and they are likely to increase by 2050, a World Bank expert said. Nguyen Huy Dung, a senior disaster risk management specialist for the World Bank in Vietnam, speaking at a conference to collect opinions on general planning for …

Taiwan electronics manufacturer Foxconn said on Friday production at its largest iPhone factory remains normal, despite tightening COVID-19 restrictions at the plant in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou this week. The Zhengzhou campus, which assembles Apple Inc’s iPhone and has about 300,000 workers, banned all dining in and required workers …

U.S. carriers including Delta Air Lines and United Airlines are betting big on American consumers’ unquenched thirst for travel across the Atlantic by adding more flights to Europe. U.S. airlines are responding to consumers emboldened by a more powerful U.S. dollar and more flexible work arrangements that allow them to …