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Hanoi is putting 600 downtown villas built before 1954 on sale, the municipal People’s Committee said. The move is among policies made by the committee to manage and put public villas built before 1954 to use. All 600 villas are under the management of the Hanoi Housing Management and Development …

A cruise ship docked in Sydney Harbor on Monday for the first time in more than two years, after a 2020 ban sparked by a mass Covid-19 outbreak was lifted. Crowds gathered at the base of the Sydney Harbor Bridge to watch the arrival of the ship, which began its …

A TikTok user was fined VND4 million ($174.73) for inciting protest on the platform in support of a popular Vietnamese tycoon, who was arrested for “abusing democratic freedom.” Le Van Phung, 32, was fined by police of the southern Binh Duong Province for inciting public disorder on Sunday. On March …

Ukrainian prime minister says strategic city ‘has not fallen,’ as fighters hold out in massive steel factory; Zelensky says if Russia kills those troops, it will end peace talks. Ukraine on Sunday vowed to fight to the end in Mariupol after a Russian ultimatum expired for remaining forces to surrender …

Tsuruyuki Hansaku was barely out of high school when he served 10 months in a Soviet prison, arrested at sea for catching cod in what the Russians considered their territory. The silver-maned resident of the northern Japanese fishing town of Nemuro, now 79, is still on edge because of the …

Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis has triggered an unprecedented wave of spontaneous protests as the nation of 22 million people struggles with prolonged power cuts and a shortage of essentials. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s government has come under growing pressure for its mishandling of the economy, and the country has suspended …

Rescuers searched for dozens of people still missing in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province on Sunday after heavy rains triggered floods and mudslides that have killed over 440 people. The floods have left thousands homeless, knocked out power and water services and disrupted operations at one of Africa’s busiest ports, …

After giving up their homes and farmland for a hydropower project, many villagers in Quang Ngai Province have seen their life descend from relative prosperity to downright misery. Standing next to the reservoir created by the Dak Drinh hydropower plant in the central province are 14 makeshift houses inhabited by …

A court in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum sentenced two Chinese men to death Saturday for running an operation producing over 11kg of methamphetamine. Cao Zi Li and Jian Huang, both 59, identified as the ringleaders, were found guilty of ‘illegal production of narcotic substances.’ Another Chinese accomplice …

Vietnam recorded 14,660 new Covid cases in 60 provinces and cities on Sunday, pushing the nation’s infection tally during the fourth coronavirus wave to over 10.4 million. The average new Covid infections over the past seven days were 20,986 a day. The Covid-19 death toll in Vietnam rose to 42,944 …