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Prisons under the Ministry of Public Security are allowed to cooperate with local organizations to let inmates work outside of jail. The policy will be carried out in a pilot scheme to organize vocational training courses and then create jobs for inmates during the time they serve their sentences, according …

Four senior executives at Vietnam’s VinFast have left the electric vehicle startup as it prepares to launch its first overseas model and roll out a network of showrooms in the United States and Europe, the company said. The recent round of departures comes as VinFast prepares to start construction of …

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s support edged down less than a month before a parliamentary election, with more than half of voters critical of how his government is handling rising prices, according to a survey published on Thursday. Kishida took office last September and will be leading his ruling Liberal …

A man high on drugs broke into a hospital, stole an ambulance and caused mayhem in Ninh Kieu District of Mekong Delta’s Can Tho. Lam Hoang Nhu, 37, on Wednesday picked up a brick and broke into the emergency area of Can Tho General Hospital. He then invaded the cafeteria …

The company building HCMC’s metro line No.1 has reported a theft of 13,000 rail clamps and several cables to the police. The HCMC Management Authority for Urban Railways (MAUR) said Wednesday that in May the contractor, a consortium of Japanese Sumitomo Corporation and Vietnam’s Civil Engineering Construction Corporation No 6 …

Australia, under a new Labor government, on Thursday raised its 2030 target for cutting carbon emissions, bringing the country more in line with other developed economies’ Paris climate accord commitments. Australia, one of the world’s highest per capita carbon emitters, pledged to the United Nations that it would cut carbon …

Japan ran its biggest single-month trade deficit in more than eight years in May as high commodity prices and declines in the yen swelled imports, clouding the country’s economic outlook. The growing trade deficit underscores the headwinds the world’s third-largest economy faces from a slide in the yen and surging …

North Korea has reported an outbreak of an unidentified intestinal epidemic on Thursday, potentially adding to strains on the isolated country’s healthcare system which is battling an unprecedented Covid-19 wave. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent medicines to the western port city of Haeju on Wednesday to help patients …

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday approved its largest interest rate increase in more than a quarter of a century to stem a surge in inflation that U.S. central bank officials acknowledged may be eroding public trust in their power, and being driven by events seen increasingly out of their hands. …

A street scuffle in Ho Chi Minh City after a traffic collision on Tuesday sent two people to hospital with severe injuries, police said. A 30-year-old man was driving a truck along Road 35 of HCMC’s Thu Duc City when he collided with a car Tuesday noon. A scuffle soon …