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A local man died of heart failure soon after saving five people from being swept away by strong waves on Phu Quoc Island. On Wednesday afternoon Nguyen Van Thai, 56, a native of Duong To Commune, and some others heard a group of tourists in the water calling for help. …

The State Securities Commission said it has fined agricultural company HAGL VND245 million (US$10,470) for giving loans to shareholders, including its chairman, and filing delays. The company gave them loans worth hundreds of billions of dong last year, including more than VND100 billion to chairman Doan Nguyen Duc, who owns …

Thailand’s health minister on Wednesday discouraged tourists from visiting the country only to smoke weed, just two months after new laws were passed that have largely decriminalized the drug. “We don’t welcome those kinds of tourists,” Anutin Charnvirakul told reporters when asked about recreational marijuana use among foreign visitors. In …