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The Vietnamese passport has jumped four places in this year’s global travel freedom index as Vietnamese citizens now enjoy visa-free access to 55 countries. In Southeast Asia, a Vietnamese passport (88th) is now more powerful than Cambodia (89th), Laos (93rd) and Myanmar (96th), according to the 2023 Henley Passport Index …

A bus plunged into a canal in southern Vietnam after a passenger attempted to steal the driver’s phone and threatened to attack him. As the 40-seat passenger bus was moving in Dong Thap Province on Tuesday night, a passenger named Le Hiep Hoa, 37, approached the driver, Phan Thanh Tung, …

Tran Tuan Viet and Vu Xuan Chinh have won “honorable mentions” at the annual International Monochrome Photography Awards. Viet’s photo of farmers cycling by a lone tree on the outskirts of Hanoi on a winter morning was honored in the “Fine Art” category. Farmers cycle on the outskirts of Hanoi …