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Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index dropped 3.48% to 1,006.2 points Tuesday with eight blue chips on the floor as global markets tumbled amid forecasts of the U.S. falling into a recession. The index closed 36.3 points lower after gaining 6.6 points on Monday. It is now at the lowest since November 30, …

For the first time in nearly three months, RON95 gasoline prices increased by 2.6% after retailers repeatedly complained that the low retail price caused them to sell at a loss. Starting 3 p.m. Tuesday, RON95 was sold at VND22,000 ($0.92) per liter, ending a chain of nine consecutive decreases. It …

A total 20,000 people in central Vietnam’s Quang Ngai Province have been isolated after a landslide cut off a highway and buried generators at a hydropower plant Tuesday. Part of a hill got eroded, sending soil and rubble down the DT 622B highway section running through Tra Lam Commune of …