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The central region will get heavy rainfall from Thursday night brought by a tropical depression combining with cold air and strong winds from the east. According to the National Center for Hydrometeorological Forecasting, a low-pressure area was formed over the East Sea and has developed into a tropical depression. At …

Academic publishing company Elsevier has named 35 Vietnamese scientists among 100,000 most cited researchers globally. The list, compiled by a group of researchers led by John P.A. Ioannidis of Stanford University, uses citations from Scopus, an international scientific database, to name 100,000 most-cited researchers of 200,409 in its database. There …

A 41-year-old woman has been found posting false information on Facebook and urging people to withdraw their money from the Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB). HCMC police called this woman up Wednesday after she posted what they said was fake news on Facebook, advising people to withdraw money from SCB, spreading …

President Joe Biden pledged on Tuesday “there will be consequences” for U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia after OPEC+ announced last week that it would cut its oil production target over U.S. objections. His announcement came a day after powerful Democratic Senator Bob Menendez, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, …

Poland said on Wednesday a leak in one of the Druzhba pipelines bringing oil from Russia to Europe hit supplies to Germany and was most likely caused by an accident, as Europe remains on high alert over its energy security. The discovery of the leak in the main route carrying …

The National Assembly is expected to approve the dismissal of Nguyen Van The from his position as transport minister, upon the prime minister’s request. The 4th plenary session of the 15th National Assembly is scheduled to begin on October 20 and end on November 15. Per the agenda, the National …

Five men in southern Vietnam’s Tra Vinh Province were detained Wednesday after killing one man in a gang fight using guns and swords. Nguyen Truong Giang (nicknamed Giang Linh), Nguyen Thanh Nhan, Nguyen Quoc Hung, Lu Gia Hung and another man also named Nguyen Truong Giang were detained by Tra …

A Russian man is suspected to have joined a local man in Nha Trang to kill another over debts in 2019. Aleksandr Vladimirovich had already returned to Russia in 2019 but is now determined a suspect in the murder of 36-year-old Ho Quoc Bao, police in the central coastal province …

Meta Platforms unveiled its Quest Pro virtual and mixed reality headset on Tuesday, marking a milestone for Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s break into the higher-end market for extended reality computing devices. The headset, introduced at Meta’s annual Connect conference, will hit shelves on Oct. 25 at a price of $1,500, …

Dementia affects around 500,000 Vietnamese aged above 60, accounting for 5% of the population in the age group, while more young people have it too. At a Tuesday conference on preventing dementia and motor impairment among elderly people, Nguyen Trong Luu, deputy chairman of Vietnam Rehabilitation Association, said dementia results …