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Vietnam has completed negotiations to spend around $23.7 million from the national budget to purchase an embassy location in the U.S. In a document to garner opinions from the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Planning and Investment and Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it had finished …

Vietnam confirmed 31,787 new local Covid-19 cases on Tuesday in 62 cities and provinces, marking the highest daily tally ever. Tuesday case count is more than twice a week ago. Hanoi accounted for most of the new cases in the day, 3,972, followed by the northern province of Hai Duong …

Some troops in Russia’s military districts adjacent to Ukraine are returning to their bases after completing drills, Russia’s defence ministry was quoted as saying on Tuesday, a move that could de-escalate frictions between Moscow and the West. Russia’s Interfax news agency cited the ministry as saying that while large-scale drills …

Vietnamese factories making everything from shoes to smartphones are expected to continue production despite record Covid-19 infections, reversing a policy of sweeping lockdowns last year that hobbled global supply chains for Western retailers. One of the world’s biggest garment makers, Vietnam reported more than 26,000 new infections on Sunday, or …

The torrent of man-made chemical and plastic waste worldwide has massively exceeded limits safe for humanity or the planet, and production caps are urgently needed, scientists have concluded for the first time. There are an estimated 350,000 different manufactured chemicals on the market and large volumes of them end up …

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday called on the country’s people to fly flags and sing the national anthem in unison on Feb. 16, a date that some Western media say Russian could invade. Ukrainian government officials stressed that Zelenskiy was not predicting an attack on Wednesday, but responding skeptically …

Dominic Lumabi sits on the computer in his Manila bedroom pitting his puffer fish-like cartoon NFT characters against others. But this is not just a game — he is earning cryptocurrency to support his family during the pandemic. The source of his income is Axie Infinity, a blockchain-based play-to-earn game …

Construction of Vietnam’s biggest airport at Long Thanh in Dong Nai Province has stopped with groundbreaking, and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh is unhappy. Making an inspection of the site on Feb. 6, he said: “Even the office of the project management board has yet to be built. Can the …

Authorities in Lam Dong Province in the Central Highlands said they plan to use 486 hectares of forests for building a highway. On Monday they inspected forests in Bao Loc Town, Bao Lam, Di Linh, and Duc Trong districts to identify the areas through which the Bao Loc-Lien Khuong Highway …

Google once used the slogan “don’t be evil” to distinguish itself from its competitors, but now a growing number of pro-privacy startups are rallying to the mantra “don’t be Google.” They are taking on Google Analytics, a product used by more than half of the world’s websites to understand people’s …