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Thousands of Vietnamese could have been smuggled to Cambodia to be exploited and rescuing them would be difficult, the police said. Colonel Khong Ngoc Oanh from the Ministry of Public Security on Monday said most illegal emigrant workers were promised “easy jobs with high pay,” only to be taken to …

Kon Plong District in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum experienced 12 earthquakes of 2.5-4.7 in magnitude from Tuesday afternoon to early Wednesday. The first, at 2:08 p.m. on Tuesday, had a magnitude of 4.7 on the Richter scale, making it the strongest earthquake to ever hit Kon Tum, …

Storm Maon that has entered the East Sea is expected to cause heavy rains in the northern region from Thursday afternoon to Friday night. According to the National Center for Hydro – Meteorological Forecasting, the storm lay centered 450 km southeast of Hong Kong at 10 a.m. on Wednesday after …

Singapore will do away with requirements to wear masks indoors starting Aug. 29, as the country sees its Covid-19 situation stabilise further, the health minister said on Wednesday. For the first time in more than two years, people in the Southeast Asian city-state will no longer be required to wear …

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida plans to call for development of new-generation nuclear power plants, the Nikkei newspaper said on Wednesday, in what could mark a major policy shift around the contentious energy source. Kishida is expected to announce the new plan during a Green Transformation (GX) meeting of officials …

A 34-year-old woman in northern Vietnam who was regularly taking morning-after pills for years has been hospitalized with pulmonary embolism. The 108 Military Central Hospital in Hanoi said Tuesday its doctors saved her life after she was admitted last week with chest pain and breathing difficulty. The woman, whose identity …

When the Covid-19 pandemic forced Wang Wei to shut his tourism company, the Tianjin native poured his life-savings of 80,000 yuan ($11,785) into selling coffee from the back of his green Suzuki micro van in the Chinese capital Beijing. Since June, Wang has driven his mobile coffee booth from car …

Finland’s prime minister Sanna Marin apologised on Tuesday for a controversial photo taken at her residence, less than a week after the 36-year-old sparked criticism with a video of her partying. The picture circulated by Finnish media shows two women kissing, lifting their tops to bare their torsos and covering …

As heads bobbed up and down Binh Di River of southern Vietnam’s An Giang Province, motorboats rescued 40 Vietnamese who managed to escape a Cambodian casino on Aug. 18. Mai Van Hung, 36, and Ngo Van Sen, 38, were feeding the fish and watching the news near Binh Di River …

The industrial hub of Dong Nai has proposed Ho Chi Minh City helps build another bridge linking the localities to improve regional connectivity. The new bridge has been proposed to cross the Dong Nai River, the natural border between HCMC and industrial hub Dong Nai. Dong Nai authorities said another …