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Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index inched up 0.54% to 1,132.11 points Friday after five straight sessions in the red. The index closed 6 points higher after losing 88.6 points in the last five sessions and falling to the lowest in 19 months. Trading on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE), on …

President Vladimir Putin will begin annexing four Ukrainian regions to Russia on Friday, a move the United Nations warned would mark a “dangerous escalation” and jeopardise prospects for peace. Moscow’s planned annexation of 15% of Ukraine’s territory, after what Kyiv and Western countries say were phoney referendums staged at gunpoint …

Anti-smuggling police have taken down a gang that bought dollars and took them to Cambodia to buy gold, which it then smuggled into Vietnam. The large gang had been operating for a long time and in many different localities, Lieutenant General To An Xo, the spokesman for the Ministry of …