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Senior officials have lauded the 84 percent completion of Vietnam-Cambodia border demarcation as a historic achievement, ensuring better management and enhancing security. Nguyen Minh Vu, Standing Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister and Chairman of the National Border Committee, said at a conference Friday to review 20 years (1999-2019) of the border …

The Ministry of Information and Communications has put forward a plan to give each poor family a tablet if they cannot afford one. In a draft circular it is putting forward for feedback, the ministry said each poor family should be given a tablet in case they have not received …

Vietnam and Cambodia have completed 84 percent of their border demarcation and agreed to continue negotiations to complete the remaining 16 percent soon, senior officials confirmed Friday. By September 2019, Vietnam and Cambodia had set up 315 main landmarks, 1,511 sub-landmarks and 221 markers, demarcating more than 1,044 km, about …

Thousands of internet users across Europe have been thrown offline after what sources said Friday was a likely cyberattack at the beginning of Russia’s offensive in Ukraine. According to Orange, “nearly 9,000 subscribers” of a satellite internet service provided by its subsidiary Nordnet in France are without internet following a …

New Zealand recorded the biggest increase in new cases, with an almost seven-fold spike, followed by Hong Kong, Vietnam, South Korea and Thailand. The Covid-19 pandemic continued its retreat around the world this week, but infections were still raging in hotspots in Asia and Oceania, led by Hong Kong and …

The Biden administration is weighing cutting U.S. imports of Russian oil and ways to minimize the impact on global supplies and consumers, the White House said on Friday, as lawmakers fast-track a bill that would ban Russian energy imports entirely. “We are looking at ways to reduce the import of …

Fuel has become such a huge expense that fishermen in central Vietnam are having trouble making a living. These days, the fishing harbor along Ca Ty River in coastal Phan Thiet Town of Binh Thuan Province is not as bustling as it should be this time of year. Normally, the …

Senior officials have lauded achievements made in the Vietnam-Cambodia border demarcation process as historic, ensuring better management and enhancing security. The two countries have completed 84 percent of their border demarcation and agreed to continue negotiations to complete the remaining 16 percent soon, the officials said at a conference organized …

The Ministry of Health announced 125,568 Covid-19 local cases on Friday, plus 48,000 cases reported in Bac Ninh and Quang Ninh from the previous days. With the additional cases, Bac Ninh leads the Friday tally with 35,085 cases, followed by Quang Ninh with 22,889 and Hanoi with 21,395. On Friday, …

A man in the central Nghe An Province on Thursday got sentenced to seven years in jail for illegally raising 14 endangered tigers. Nguyen Van Hien, 40, was jailed for “Offences against regulations on management and protection of endangered, rare animals,” as determined by Nghe An People’s Court. Hien raised …