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Hanoi immigration offices will stop issuing and renewing passports, except for urgent purposes as they wait for a new passport form issued by the public security department. Starting June 1, the headquarters of the Immigration Department on Tran Phu Street and two facilities of the Immigration Office announced they would …

An official with the transport department in the northern Bac Giang Province was detained Saturday for driving under the influence and causing the death of three people. Nguyen Duc Thinh, an official of the Bac Giang management committee for road maintenance under the Department of Transport, was arrested by the …

A Chinese fighter aircraft dangerously intercepted an Australian military surveillance plane in the East Sea region in May, Australia’s defense department said on Sunday. The Royal Australian Air Force P-8 maritime surveillance aircraft was intercepted by a Chinese J-16 fighter during “routine maritime surveillance activity” in international airspace in the …

At least five people died and some 100 were injured after a massive fire tore through a container depot in Bangladesh’s southeastern town of Sitakunda, officials said Sunday. The fire broke out at an inland container storage facility just 40 kilometers (25 miles) outside of the country’s main sea port …

Production resumed Saturday at an Abbott Nutrition baby formula plant in the U.S. whose closure helped fuel a crippling nationwide shortage. The facility in Sturges, Michigan has met initial government sanitary requirements for reopening, the company said in a statement. The plant, a major producer of formula, shut down and …

North Korea launched at least one ballistic missile into waters off its east coast, South Korea’s military said Sunday, the latest in a recent series of weapons tests. Pyongyang has doubled down on upgrading its weapons program this year despite facing crippling economic sanctions. “North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic …

The Communist Party’s decision-making Politburo has ordered punishment against Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long and Hanoi Chairman Chu Ngoc Anh for their involvement in a Covid test kit scam. The order was made to the Party’s Central Committee Saturday, 18 days after the Party’s Central Inspection Committee proposed to the …

Each repatriation flight organized during the Covid-19 pandemic earned profits of several billion Vietnamese dong (VND1 billion = $43,600) after deducting costs, according to the Ministry of Public Security. To An Xo, spokesman of the ministry, said at a government press meet Saturday Vietnam had operated around 2,000 repatriation flights …

A project funded by an U.S. aid agency has been launched in Hanoi to have the private sector engage more in Vietnam’s renewable energy development. The Vietnam Low Emission Energy Program II (V-LEEP II) project, announced by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris during her visit to Vietnam last August, costs …

The price of a cryptocurrency token rose 2.6 times over 24 hours after the CEO of Binance CZ tweeted “I love Pho” during his visit to Vietnam on Friday. The value of PHO, a cryptocurrency token by PhoSwap, rose from $0.019 to $0.05 per token over a 24-hour period on …