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A Wednesday’s oil truck blaze in the Mekong Delta province of Long An Province inflicted damage worth VND2 billion ($87,500) on the HCMC – Trung Luong Expressway. The five-ton truck burst a tire on a section of the expressway in Long An’s Tan An Town, causing it to scrape against …

Vietnam has stopped collecting medical declarations within the country, but localities will continue monitoring the Covid-19 pandemic, the health ministry says. It said the decision to stop collecting the declarations starting April 30 was made in the light of falling numbers of Covid-19 infections and deaths, along with high vaccination …

A total 44 hectares (108.7 acres) of forest may be lost if a national highway is built through a Dong Nai world biosphere reserve, according to the provincial transport department. The 13C National Highway, spanning 86 kilometers, including over 55 kilometers running through the southern Dong Nai Province, would have …

Singapore-listed Thai Beverage TBEV.SI is looking to raise as much as $1 billion through the revived Singapore initial public offering (IPO) of its regional beer business this year, two sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The size of the potential fundraising has been halved from a year ago …

Two Russian tourists in Hanoi allegedly had their phones stolen by a taxi driver Thursday while charging them inside the car. The two women, unnamed, were grabbing a cab to Hang Bong Street in downtown Hoan Kiem District at around 3 a.m. En route, the tourists asked the driver to …

Millions of people in Beijing returned to work Thursday, many remotely, with scores of subway stations shut after a national holiday muted by the coronavirus curbs. Chinese authorities have pressed on with their zero-Covid policy involving lockdowns and mass testing as they battle the biggest outbreak since the early days …

An eight-year-old girl allegedly beaten to death by her father’s fiancée used to be locked in a kennel and forced to kneel for hours while alive, the police said. Prosecutors told a Ho Chi Minh City court Wednesday that between Dec. 7 and 22 last year, Nguyen Vo Quynh Trang, …

A mothballed nuclear power plant built near a fault line and volcanoes in the Philippines during Ferdinand Marcos’s dictatorship could be revived if his son wins next week’s presidential election. The $2.2 billion Bataan plant became a monument to the greed and graft of the Marcos era, and was left …

A strong commitment to boosting trust and friendship between Japanese and Vietnamese leaders is a remarkable development amid complicated political developments around the world, experts say. During Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s two-day (April 30-May 1) official visit to Vietnam, he held talks with all Vietnamese leaders including counterpart Pham …

North Korea’s office workers and factory laborers have been dispatched to farming areas around the country to join a fight against drought, state media reported on Wednesday, amid concerns over prolonged food shortages. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had called for measures to improve a tense food situation caused …