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Vietnam on Thursday called for all parties to resume dialogue and resolve conflicts through peaceful methods when asked to comment on Russia annexing four Ukrainian regions. “Vietnam calls for all relevant parties to resume dialogues and resolve issues through peaceful methods in accordance with international law, especially the principle of …

Thirty-four people were killed in Thailand on Thursday in a mass shooting at a day-care center by a former policeman who killed his wife and child before shooting himself dead, police said. There were 22 children among the victims of the suspected gunman, who police said had been discharged from …

A man in northern Vietnam has been arrested right after he attempted to rob a taxi driver, unsure how to drive. Ma Van Tang, 33, was detained Wednesday as police in Phu Luong District of Thai Nguyen Province probe him for “robbery.” He told police that around Tuesday noon, he …

Eleven endangered elongated tortoises, along with other rare turtle species kept at a pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1, will be released back into the wild. Employees of the HCMC forest protection department, along with practitioners at Phuoc Hai Pagoda, on Wednesday brought the turtles residing in a …

PM Pham Minh Chinh has instructed the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to tighten licensing regulations for karaoke parlors. In summing up an online national conference on fire safety held in mid-September he said the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism should verify if karaoke and dance establishments have …

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukrainian forces have retaken more settlements in Kherson, one of the partially Russian-occupied southern regions that Moscow claims to have annexed. With Russian forces retreating from front lines in the south and east, Zelenskiy said in a late-night video address on Wednesday that Novovoskresenske, Novohryhorivka and …

The dollar fought for a footing in choppy trade on Thursday, with support from upbeat U.S. data and hawkish policymaker comments, while the prospect of higher energy prices helped exporters’ currencies and weighed on those of importers. The dollar rose 1% on the euro and 1.3% on sterling overnight and …

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Thursday in the direction of Japan, after the return of a U.S. aircraft carrier to the region and a U.N. Security Council meeting in response to the North’s recent launches. The missile launch was the sixth in 12 days …

Doctors in Hanoi hospitals are overwhelmed by the number of child patients coming with respiratory diseases as the season changes. Xuan, who lives in Hai Ba Trung District, went to Thanh Nhan Hospital on Monday and was surprised to see it packed with child patients and their families everywhere from …

Russian President Vladimir Putin formalised the annexation of four Ukrainian regions on Wednesday despite major battlefield reversals in recent days shrinking the amount of seized territory Moscow controls. Putin has now signed off on a law formally incorporating the four regions, representing about 18% of Ukraine’s territory, into Russia, the …