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A man in the central province of Thanh Hoa died Tuesday afternoon after trying to turn a warhead into scrap, only for it to explode. Mai Dinh Son, 41, works as a scrap collector in Quang Xuong District. A few days prior, he bought back a warhead from another collector. …

People are building basic structures purporting to be farmhouses on lands near a planned national highway to claim higher compensation rates if they are acquired. Dozens of workers were finishing a series of barns on a plot of land not far from the Ho Chi Minh Road in Quang Binh’s …

Japan lifted a power-supply warning for Tokyo and surrounding areas on Wednesday as supply stabilized, a day after the government had warned of possible blackouts in the aftermath of an earthquake last week. The warning was lifted at 1100 JST (0200 GMT), after the government issued an urgent call the …

Elon Musk was cheered as he oversaw the handover of Tesla’s first German-made cars at its Gruenheide plant on Tuesday, marking the start of the U.S. automaker’s inaugural European hub just two years after it was first announced. Loud music played as 30 clients and their families got a first …

A mother and daughter were killed in a fire at an apartment building in HCMC’s Tan Phu District early Wednesday. The fire started at around 4 a.m. at an apartment on the 10th floor of the Carilon 5 building on Luy Ban Bich Street. Two women who are mother and …

British prosecutors on Tuesday hailed another conviction resulting from a years-long probe into a people smuggling operation that led to the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants inside a truck. A British court sentenced Stefan Dragos Damian, a 28-year-old Romanian citizen, to three years and 10 months in prison on Monday …

The U.S. Travel Association on Tuesday urged the White House to lift Covid-19 travel restrictions and repeal a mandate requiring masks on airplanes and in other transit modes by April 18, according to a letter seen by Reuters. In a letter to Dr. Ashish Jha, the incoming White House Covid …

The Health Ministry will hold a meeting next week to expedite deployment of the digital vaccine passport nationwide after a trial period, an official said Tuesday. Nguyen Ba Hung, deputy director of medical data center under the ministry’s Department of Information Technology, said that after a week of piloting, the …

The Philippines and the United States will kick off the largest-ever joint military drills in the archipelago nation next week, U.S. officials said Tuesday, showing off their strong defense ties in the face of growing Chinese assertiveness. Nearly 9,000 Filipino and American soldiers will take part in the 12-day war …

Seven endangered tigers previously trafficked were transferred to a national park in the central province of Quang Binh Tuesday. Vo Cong Anh Tuan, head of Science and International Cooperation of the Pu Mat National Park in Nghe An, said personnel have been luring the tigers into cages for half a …