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Three people in the central Nghe An Province were sentenced to death Tuesday for drug smuggling, while one was sentenced for life. Ly A Po, 22, Vu A Thang, 21, and Giang A Minh, 23, received death for smuggling drugs from Nghe An to Hanoi, Nghe An People’s Court ruled. …

Australia and Vietnam have signed the first bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) under the Australian Agriculture Visa Program that will allow Vietnamese to do farm work down under. Under the agriculture visa program, employees will be recruited to work across a range of agriculture sectors, including horticulture, dairy, wool, grains, …

The police are investigating the alleged shining of laser beams by unknown people at airplanes at Chu Lai airport in Quang Nam Province. Vo Van Dong, chairman of Binh Son District in Quang Ngai Province next to Quang Nam, said Tuesday the district police have begun a probe after a …

Vietnam Electricity (EVN) will borrow 80 million euros (over US$88 million) from the French Development Agency (AFD) to integrate renewable energy with the power grid in southern Vietnam. The loan agreement will fund a project that aims at strengthening the power grid in the south of Vietnam and the integration …

The World Bank has put four projects in Afghanistan worth $600 million on hold amid concerns over a decision by the country’s ruling Islamist leaders to ban girls from returning to public high schools, the bank said. The projects, to be funded under the revamped Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund, were …

Oil prices ended 2 percent lower on Tuesday as talks progressed between Russia and Ukraine to end their weeks-long conflict, though Moscow negotiators said a promise to scale down some military operations did not represent a ceasefire. Further weighing on oil futures, new lockdowns in China to curb the spread …

U.S. President Joe Biden plans to discuss Russia’s attack of Ukraine and China’s role in the Indo-Pacific with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore at the White House on Tuesday, a senior administration official said. Lee, who will later meet with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, will join Biden …

The Health Ministry on Tuesday announced 111,638 new local Covid-19 cases, including 23,262 detected on the previous days but yet to be added to the national database. The three localities with the highest number of cases are northern Quang Ninh Province with 20,198 cases, Hanoi with 8,993, and central Binh …

Trinh Van Quyet, chairman of real estate developer FLC, was arrested Tuesday pending investigations into suspicion of stock market manipulation. Officers from the Ministry of Public Security’s Investigative Police Agency arrested Quyet to “investigate” and “verify” him and related individuals and companies on the act of “manipulating the stock market” …

A groundbreaking ceremony was held Tuesday to start work on Rach Mieu 2 Bridge that will connect Tien Giang and Ben Tre provinces in the Mekong Delta. Costing VND5.2 trillion ($228.6 million), the bridge crosses the Tien River, a tributary of the Mekong, and is expected to be completed after …