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Two men and one woman died and another woman was hospitalized in the northern Vinh Phuc Province after a wall collapsed Wednesday as they were cleaning up after a downpour. The dead were aged 25-43 and the injured woman was 22 years old. All four persons were cleaning up after …

Tuition fees among Hanoi’s international schools could rise to VND807 million ($34,774) per year, excluding enrollment and canteen costs. Hanoi has 13 international schools, defined as schools funded entirely by international investments. Their tuition fees generally rise every year. School District Tuition fee (million of VND/year) Pre-school Primary Secondary British …

Vietnam’s VinFast is shifting its legal and financial headquarters to Singapore as the fledgling electric vehicle (EV) maker readies for a potential public listing and the first production run of cars for U.S. and European markets, its chief executive told Reuters. The three-year-old unit of conglomerate Vingroup JSC will start …

Construction is due to start on Vietnam’s first green hydrogen plant next month, the government said on Wednesday, as the Southeast Asian country seeks to boost the use of cleaner energy while reducing dependence on coal in its power mix. TGS Green Hydrogen will build the plant in the southern …

Philippine president-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr said Thursday he would uphold an international ruling against Beijing over the disputed South China Sea, insisting he would not let China trample on Manila’s maritime rights. China claims almost all of the resource-rich waterway, through which trillions of dollars in trade passes annually, with …

China’s premier has sounded an unusually stark warning about the world’s second-largest economy, saying it must return to normal as the country’s zero-Covid strategy bites into growth. China is the last major economy welded to a policy of mass testing and rapid lockdowns to eliminate virus clusters, but the strict …

While its seaports make up the country’s highest cargo volume, HCMC faces a serious lack of parking areas for container trucks. Almost every day, a section of Vo Chi Cong Street near Phu Huu and Cat Lai ports in Thu Duc City gets crowded with container trucks standing in long …

If global automakers think they can extend their dominance in China into the electric era, they may be in for a shock. Kings of the combustion age such as General Motors and Volkswagen are falling behind local players in the booming electric vehicle (EV) market in China, a country that’s …

The Texas gunman who murdered 19 children and two teachers posted an online message warning that he was going to shoot up an elementary school minutes before he attacked, Governor Greg Abbott said on Wednesday, as more harrowing details about Tuesday’s rampage emerged. The gunman, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, also sent …

Two repairmen were killed in Hanoi Wednesday evening when an elevator they were repairing crashed down. The accident took place in an eight-story building on Kim Ma Street in Ba Dinh District that is currently under renovation. The police found one of them on the roof of the cabin and …