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Vietnam attaches great importance to the upcoming visit of China’s Party General Secretary and President Xi Jinping and will give him a special welcome, Vietnamese Ambassador to China Pham Sao Mai said. According to Mai, the Dec. 12-13 visit by Xi takes place at a meaningful time as the two …

A man who was swindled by Tran Qui Thanh, chairman of Vietnam’s largest beverage producer, will stand trial on charges of selling fake land. A court in Ho Chi Minh City will hear the case of Nguyen Van Chung, 37, who is charged with fraudulent appropriation of property, on Tuesday. According to an …

Vehicle access will be restricted on several major routes in Hanoi on Dec. 12 and 13 for the reception of Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife. On those days, vehicles will be limited on Ring Road 3, from Nguyen Trai to Vo Van Kiet streets, Hanoi’s Police Department has …

150 police officers and soldiers from Binh Thuan Province surrounded and arrested 28 people engaged in illegal gold mining in the forests on Saturday. The Binh Thuan Police Department reported that in the early hours of Saturday, officers and soldiers trekked nearly 10 kilometers into the forest and raided an …

A South Korean court’s ruling that ordered Japan to compensate 16 women over forced wartime sexual slavery has been “finalized” as Tokyo did not appeal, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Saturday. Mainstream historians say up to 200,000 women — mostly from Korea, but also other parts of Asia including China — …

Australia’s southeast on Saturday sweated through a heat wave that raised the risk of bushfires and led authorities to ban fires in large parts of New South Wales state. The nation’s weather forecaster predicted a maximum temperature in Sydney, Australia’s most populous city, of 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), …

A man in the Central Highlands’ Lam Dong Province was found dead after he and his motorbike fell into a 2 m deep sinkhole in Bao Loc City on Saturday. At around 2:40 p.m., locals passing through an eroded bypass section in Loc Son Ward saw a motorbike in a …

The upcoming state visit to Vietnam by China’s Party General Secretary and President Xi Jinping is expected to bring bilateral cooperation to a new level, said Permanent Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Minh Vu. In an interview granted to the press, Vu said Xi’s visit on Dec. 12 and 13 will …

A woman in Hanoi has been caught tricking her lover out of VND2.2 billion (US$90,800) by claiming her husband’s child was his. Nguyen Thi Loan, 30, was sentenced to 15 years in prison by the Hanoi People’s Court on Friday for “obtaining property by fraud.” Loan is currently out on …

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue cut the ribbon on Saturday to launch the Vietnam Town in Thailand’s northeastern Udon Thani province, which is the first in Thailand and the world. The top legislator described the opening of the Vietnam Town as a new imprint of Vietnam in Thailand. He …