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The Party Politburo will make recommendations at its next plenary for the new ministers of Transport and Health as well as the State Auditor General to the National Assembly. Addressing at the closing session of the sixth plenum of the 13th Central Committee of Vietnam’s Communist Party Sunday, Party General …

Police in the central city of Da Nang are probing the death of a South Korean woman found dead at a hotel’s swimming pool area last week. Around 6:30 p.m. October 5, police officers in Son Tra District, where the hotel is located, received a report that a foreigner had …

Hundreds gathered in temples in northeast Thailand on Saturday, offering candles, toys and prayers to mark the lives of more than 30 mostly child victims of a gun and knife rampage that shocked the world. Most of the children, aged 2 to 5, were slashed to death on Thursday, while …

North Korea fired two ballistic missiles early on Sunday, authorities in neighbouring countries said, the seventh such launch by Pyongyang in recent days that added to widespread alarm in Washington and its allies in Tokyo and Seoul. Both missiles reached an altitude of 100 km (60 miles) and covered a …

A train was forced to make an emergency stop on Pham Van Dong Street in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday as a railway level crossing barrier had not been closed. The train was traveling from Binh Trieu Station in Thu Duc City to Saigon Station in District 3 at …

There has been no shortage of cyberspace fraud warnings in Vietnam for several years now, but the number of people falling for scams and losing their money keeps rising. Experts say that ignorance and greed are major factors that the scammers can count on to lure increasing number of victims …

A Vietnam Airlines flight from HCMC to Hanoi had to turn back Saturday morning so that a passenger could receive medical aid. Half an hour after the carrier’s Boeing 787 aircraft departed from Tan Son Nhat Airport at 10 a.m., a 44-year-old passenger suffered from high blood pressure and difficult …

The lack of public schools, high costs of private education and working overtime have placed factory workers in Vietnam in a nursery crisis. Vietnam has about 4.1 million workers employed at 291 industrial zones, with the increasing labor force in big cities placing pressure on the preschool system. In many …

Many streets in Can Tho City in the Mekong Delta were flooded on Saturday as tides on the Hau River peaked at 2.16 meters, the highest this year. Water in the Hau River, a tributary of the Mekong, overflew into many streets, flooding houses and offices early on Saturday. The …

Northern and central Vietnam regions would welcome the first winter monsoon winds of this year on Sunday, which will cause temperatures to drop by 3-5 degrees Celsius and trigger rains. The winter monsoon winds would also facilitate strong winds and rough seas, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting. …