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Vietnamese authorities have over the past week seized more than 600 kilograms of ivory smuggled from Africa, the government said on Monday. Trade in ivory is illegal in Vietnam but wildlife trafficking remains widespread. Other items often found smuggled into the country include pangolin scales, rhino horns and tiger carcasses. …

Tran Nhat Tan, head of the Ha Tinh Fatherland Front Committee, said the search for soldier Cao Xuan Tuat as described in a notebook possessed by U.S. veteran Peter Mathews came to him like fate. “I felt as if something was spurring me to find the notebook’s owner,” he said. …

A pair of Vietnamese deep-sea fishers have been confirmed missing after their fishing boat sank near South Korea this week, the foreign ministry announced. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs told VnExpress that two Vietnamese nationals are among the nine fishermen missing after their boat capsized off the coast of Sinan …