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The Da Nang City police have arrested a man running shell companies to allegedly smuggle wild animal parts from Africa to Vietnam. Nguyen Duc Tai, 33, is under investigation for “violating regulations on management and protection of endangered, precious and rare animals.” The Police Division for Corruption, Smuggling and Economics …

Record floods were expected in parts of southern China Thursday as heavy rains pushed water levels in the Pearl River delta to their highest in almost a century. Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated from the worst-hit parts of the region, which includes Guangdong province, a manufacturing and …

Germany’s BMW said on Thursday that production has formally begun at a new plant in China with an investment of 15 billion yuan ($2.24 billion) as the carmaker accelerates electric vehicle (EV) production. The Lydia plant, BMW’s third car assembly facility in China, located in the northeastern city of Shenyang, …

Border guards and police in the central province of Quang Tri have arrested two Lao and one Vietnamese man for transporting 66,000 pills of synthetic drugs into Vietnam. The first arrest, of 19-year-old Laotian Xi Bun, took place around 10 p.m. Sunday at the border of the province and Laos …

Major global biodiversity loss could cause enough economic damage by the end of the decade to severely cut more than half of the world’s sovereign credit ratings – including China’s, the first major study on the issue has warned. The research published on Thursday by a group of British universities …

Leaders at the upcoming G7 summit in Germany will announce new measures aimed at pressuring Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday. “We will roll out a concrete set of proposals to increase pressure on Russia,” the official said. U.S. President Joe Biden flies Saturday …

Hanoi has finalized the design for the Tran Hung Dao Bridge that will straddle Hoan Kiem, Hai Ba Trung and Long Bien districts with curves and a dome-like structure. The design won first place in a contest held by the Hanoi management board for traffic structure investment projects and the …

Legal issues and high operation costs have seen surgical robots ‘shelved’, forcing patients across Vietnam to seek medical treatment abroad. In 2017, Bach Mai, a leading public hospital in Hanoi and northern Vietnam, struck a deal with Ho Chi Minh City-based B.M.S Medical Equipment Co., Ltd to put into use …

The Central Inspection Committee has proposed that the Politburo disciplines former HCMC chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong for violating Party regulations. In a statement Wednesday it also proposed the HCMC Communist Party Designated Representative Committee for the 2016-2021 term be disciplined for violating the principle of democratic centralism and working regulations …

From the start of the monsoon in April to date, the southern Binh Duong Province has recorded 4,867 dengue fever cases, up 17.6 percent against the same period last year. Of those cases, eight have died, Nguyen Hong Chuong, director of Binh Duong’s Health Department, told a provincial meeting Wednesday. …