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Though the tourism industry worked hard to cash in on the recent holiday rush, many tourists felt “more tired than joyful” with overcrowding, traffic jams and overpricing ruining their vacations. Returning from Sa Pa, a mountainous highlands town about five hours from Hanoi, after the 5-day holiday break that wrapped …

The identity of five Vietnamese runners that tested positive for banned substances in SEA Games 31 last year were revealed on Friday by the Vietnam Athletics Federation. Besides the five Vietnamese runners, Quach Thi Lan, Khuat Phuong Anh, Vu Thi Ngoc Ha, Hoang Thi Ngoc and Le Ngoc Phuc, two …

Eight were killed and over 20 were injured after a bus and a truck collided in Laos’s Bolikhamxay Province on Monday. Vientiane rescue authorities said among the injured were foreign nationals, including two from the U.K., two from South Africa and one from Sweden, the Laotian Times reported. The bus …