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The U.S. has showed how important Vietnam is to its Southeast Asia policy, experts say. “During Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s visit to Washington, the Biden administration demonstrated by word and deed that Vietnam occupies a prominent role in U.S. relations with Southeast Asia,” Carlyle Thayer, emeritus professor, University …

A woman in central Vietnam’s Binh Dinh Province found her long-lost twin sister after 47 years thanks to ID card registration. Mai Thi Ben, 59, was informed by police that she had the exact same face as another woman in Phu Yen, who lives about 175 kilometers away. Police of …

A storm drain in Ho Chi Minh City broke, resulting in a sinkhole on Go Vap District’s Nguyen Oanh Street Friday morning. The sinkhole, which spans around 20 square meters and is around three meters deep, is near an intersection between Nguyen Oanh and Phan Van Tri streets, which has …

Japan will next month double its limit on foreign arrivals to 20,000 a day, the top government spokesperson said on Friday. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told a regular news conference that travellers from most countries, about 80% of the total foreign entrants to Japan, would not be required to …

Sri Lanka’s PM has warned of a food shortage as it battles a devastating economic crisis and vowed the government will buy enough fertilizer for next season to boost harvests. A decision in April last year by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to ban all chemical fertilisers drastically cut crop yields and …

A center to provide guidelines for agricultural production in the Mekong Delta will be established in Can Tho City. The Mekong Delta Agricultural Product Center would act as a hub connecting farmers, producers and traders, Duong Tan Hien, deputy chairman of Can Tho, said at a conference held Thursday to …

After teaching for three years at an international school in Shanghai, Michael is preparing to break his contract and leave, worn down by stringent measures against the coronavirus. Following two years of nearly-shut borders, onerous health checks and quarantine norms, a decision at the beginning of April to lock down …

North Korea said Friday it was achieving “good results” in the fight against the country’s first confirmed Covid-19 outbreak, as the number of people with fever symptoms surpassed 2 million. The isolated nation reported 263,370 more people with fever symptoms, and two more deaths, taking the total fever caseload to …

Japan’s core consumer inflation in April rose above the central bank’s 2 percent target, hitting a more than seven-year high as increased costs are causing broader price hikes. The rise in consumer prices is making it harder for the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to convince markets it will keep monetary …

The Hanoi Metropolitan Railway Management Board (MRB) has proposed a capital addition of VND4.905 trillion ($211.8 million) for the Nhon-Hanoi Station metro project and an extension of its operational deadline to 2027. According to a proposal that it sent Thursday to the Hanoi People’s Committee, the entire metro line would …