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Billionaire Elon Musk said on Tuesday he would reverse Twitter’s ban on former U.S. President Donald Trump when he buys the social media platform, the clearest signal yet of Musk’s intention to cut moderation of the site. Musk, the world’s richest person and chief executive of electric vehicle maker Tesla …

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has called for resolute handling of land speculation, improper land use, wastefulness and corruption. Closing the six-day fifth plenum of 13th Party Central Committee in Hanoi Tuesday, Trong said the committee, the highest authority within the Communist Party of Vietnam, has spent a lot …

Border gates along the Vietnam-Laos boundary have resumed operation now that the Covid-19 pandemic has eased in both countries. On Monday morning, drivers only needed to prove they had received two vaccine doses to pass through the Lao Bao border gate in Huong Hoa District of Quang Tri Province in …

PM Pham Minh Chinh left Hanoi Tuesday evening for Washington to attend the ASEAN-U.S. Special Summit at the invitation of U.S. President Joe Biden. Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh waves before boarding the plane to attend the ASEAN-U.S. Special Summit in Washington, May 10, 2022. Photo by VnExpress/Hoang Thuy …

Australia has completed delivery of more than 7.2 million Covid-19 vaccine doses for pediatric use in Vietnam. The first delivery arrived on April 8, and the remaining doses were delivered throughout April. The final delivery of 772,000 doses arrived on May 7, a press release by the Australian Embassy in …

What Ms. Zhang didn’t expect when she hunkered down for Shanghai’s citywide lockdown was complimentary ready meals and desserts from luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton and Cartier to start arriving the very next day. Since the Covid-19 containment began on April 1, closing stores and paralyzing online shopping, brands …

Google on Tuesday honored doctor Ton That Tung, who revolutionized the approach to liver resection surgery around the world. Vietnamese surgeon Ton That Tung is illustrated in a Google Doodle on May 10, 2022. The Doodle, illustrated by Berlin-based artist Chau Luong, honored the 110th birthday of Dr. Tung. Tung …

South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol called on the North to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for massive economic aid at his swearing-in Tuesday, describing Pyongyang’s missiles as a threat to regional and global security. Yoon, 61, who started work in an underground bunker with a security briefing on …

The health ministry has called on authorities to take samples from hepatitis patients if the manner of causation is unknown. Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son Monday said this is to increase preparedness against the acute pediatric hepatitis of unknown origin found so far in over 20 countries and …

China’s sea levels reached their highest on record last year, swelled by rising water temperatures and the melting of glaciers and polar icecaps, the government said in a report. Coastal sea levels were 84 mm (3.3 inches) higher in 2021 than the average over the period from 1993 to 2011, …