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Singapore will decriminalize sex between men but has no plans to change the legal definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Sunday. LGBTQ groups welcomed Lee’s decision to repeal Section 377A of the penal code, a colonial-era law that …

Tour guides specializing in serving domestic tourists have been enjoying a lucrative summer after losing more than two years of work to the Covid pandemic. Le Doan Ngoc Thi, director of HCMC-based Viet Guide Company, said each tour guide in his company received six to eight groups of tourists in …

Vietnam’s public debt in 2021 was 43.1% of the GDP, lower than the 60% ceiling set by the National Assembly. According to a Ministry of Finance bulletin, Vietnam’s public debt has gradually decreased over the past five years, from 61.4% in 2017 to 43.1% of GDP last year. Against a …