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European Union leaders agreed in principle on Monday to cut 90 percent of oil imports from Russia by the end of this year, resolving dead lock with Hungary over the bloc’s toughest sanction yet on Moscow since the attack of Ukraine three months ago. Diplomats said the agreement would clear …

A concrete maker in the Mekong Delta has proposed the building of an industrial complex next to a world-recognized national park, despite warnings of severely negative environmental impacts. The proposal submitted by the Ha Thanh Concrete Company in Dong Thap Province would have the industrial complex span 60 ha in …

Downpours on Sunday had broken records in 1986 by around 6 mm, according to weather stations on Hanoi’s Lang Street. In two hours from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, the weather station on Lang recorded rain levels at 138 mm, which exceeded the previous record at 132.5 mm …

A man was arrested in HCMC for the alleged murder of his ex-wife and her parents over fight for custody for his daughter, police said Sunday. Doan Minh Hai, 34, was incapacitated and arrested in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 12, according to the police. At the point of the …

Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp on Monday said it missed its global production target for April as Covid-19 outbreaks and a parts shortage slowed its post-pandemic recovery. The world’s largest automaker by sales produced 692,259 vehicles last month, a 9.1 percent drop from the same month last year, and falling short …

The International School Ho Chi Minh City said it is partly responsible for a beating incident between its students which has caused parents’ concerns. Kim Sharee Green, principal of ISHCMC, said in a report submitted to the city’s education department on Sunday that teachers were informed of the beating outside …

Streets in Beijing were busier on Monday as residents in two districts were allowed to return to work, while Shanghai inched closer towards lifting its two-month old Covid-19 lockdown from Wednesday, as the number of infections across China dropped. China is alone among major countries in pursuing an uncompromising “zero …

Nepali rescuers found on Monday the crash site of a missing passenger plane that went down with 22 people on board, the army said. “A search team has located the wreckage of the plane and shared a picture. Additional teams are heading there so we can get details,” said Nepal …

Downpours on Sunday had broken records in 1986 by around 6 mm, according to weather stations on Hanoi’s Lang Street. In two hours from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, the weather station on Lang recorded rain levels at 138 mm, which exceeded the previous record at 132.5 mm …

The EU failed on Sunday to agree on an embargo of Russian oil, but diplomats but will still try to make progress ahead of a Monday-Tuesday summit on an exemption for pipeline deliveries to landlocked Central European countries, officials said. However, a senior EU diplomat said there was “still too …