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The foreign ministry has advised Vietnamese citizens in Ukraine to be ready for evacuation from major cities amid complex war developments in the country. The Vietnamese Embassy in Ukraine has worked with local authorities to prepare to support citizens and businesses, as well as protecting their assets as conflicts in …

Many streets in Vung Tau, a beach town near HCMC, have been flooded while landslides block a road on Thursday. Due to heavy rains on Thursday morning, a series of streets in downtown Vung Tau were submerged by up to 30 centimeters. Walking her motorbike through floodwaters to reach work, …

A tourist in central Vietnam’s Nghe An Province clung to a rock offshore for 25 minutes after being swept away at sea Wednesday. Due to weather patterns triggered by Storm Nesat, rough seas were observed along beaches of Cua Lo Town. Strong waves relentlessly smashed into the shore, sweeping away …

HCMC police are clarifying the origins of 156 buildings linked to Van Thinh Phat Group to serve an ongoing criminal investigation. The economic security division under the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department had sent officers over to the municipal Department of Natural and Environment to clarify information about government …

The U.S. government is considering a plan to jointly produce weapons with Taiwan, a business lobby said on Wednesday, an initiative intended to speed up arms transfers to bolster Taipei’s deterrence against China. U.S. presidents have approved more than $20 billion in weapons sales to Taiwan since 2017 as China …

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology convened a series of emergency meetings over the past week with leading semiconductor companies, seeking to assess the damage from the U.S. chip restrictions, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. The ministry summoned executives from firms including Yangtze Memory Technologies Co (YMTC) and supercomputer …

One man was killed in a fire that broke out at a paint factory in Hanoi’s Ha Dong District Thursday morning. The fire began at 7 a.m. inside the warehouse,which have a lot of flammable materials. Strong winds caused the flames to spread quickly. At least seven fire trucks with …

Da Nang City has estimated the losses caused by last week’s flooding, the worst ever, at VND1.48 trillion (US$60.3 million). The floods caused by Storm Son Ca inundated 70,000 houses and damaged 2,000 cars and 30,000 motorbikes, city chairman Le Trung Chinh said at a meeting with President Nguyen Xuan …

Some species of rove beetles that are entering the mating season are causing skin rashes and sending thousands of people in Hanoi to hospital. Han, a 7-year-old girl, suffered numerous spots of skin rashes and inflammation spots. Her family took her to the National Hospital of Dermatology and Venereology, where …

Ukraine is restricting electricity usage nationwide for the first time on Thursday following a barrage of Russian missile and drone attacks that have destroyed some power plants just before the cold winter months set in. Power supply will be restricted between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m., government officials and the …