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Chairman of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) Samdech Techo Hun Sen highlighted the significance of the victory over the Pol Pol genocidal regime 45 years ago, at a ceremony to celebrate the historical event in Phnom Penh on Sunday. Chairman of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) Hun Sen gestures as …

Sok Eysan, a spokesman of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), on Sunday highlighted the important role by Vietnamese volunteer soldiers in Cambodia’s victory over the Pol Pol genocidal regime 45 years ago. They helped liberate the Cambodian people from the genocidal regime swiftly in a timely manner, he said. Tourists …

Police arrested 26 individuals transporting nearly 300 kg of drugs, hidden in tea and coffee packages, from Laos to Ho Chi Minh City in an international drug trafficking bust. PHOTO: Drugs hidden in packages of tea and coffee seized by the police. Photo courtesy of the police Ho Chi Minh …

Recent hostilities in the Red Sea have thrown global shippers of vital goods for a loop – but it is hardly the only issue that big carriers are facing as 2024 kicks off. People walk on the beach as a container ship crosses the Gulf of Suez towards the Red …

The latest black eye for Boeing’s top-selling 737 MAX aircraft occurred Friday when a cabin panel blowout forced an Alaska Airlines flight to make an emergency landing. An Ethiopian Airlines’ Boeing737Max8 plane to take off on a demonstration trip to resume flights from the Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, …

North Korea’s military fired over 60 artillery rounds near Yeonpyeong Island on Saturday, Seoul’s military said, a day after both sides staged live-fire drills in the same area near their contested maritime border. “North Korean forces conducted artillery fire with over 60 rounds” northwest of Yeonpyeong Island on Saturday afternoon, …

Rescuers and residents sifted through rubble Saturday as their focus turned to recovering bodies and cleaning up rather than finding survivors, five days after a huge earthquake struck central Japan and killed at least 126 people. The death toll from the New Year’s Day 7.5 magnitude quake in the Ishikawa …

Several domestic flights are now over 90% booked as the Lunar New Year (Tet) approaches, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam said Saturday. A representative of the authority said several flights from Hanoi and HCMC to other domestic locations have high booking rates on the days leading to the Lunar …

A man in central Quang Ngai Province was arrested for murdering six people, 43 years after claiming their lives. Phan Thanh Viet, 71, was arrested in Ca Mau in southern Vietnam Saturday by the police of Quang Ngai to be investigated for murder and robbery. An investigator said that Viet’s …

Standing trial for giving bribes to sell Covid test kits at inflated prices, a businessman told the court Friday he had helped Vietnam become one of the first countries to have its own test kits. Phan Quoc Viet, CEO and chairman of the Viet A company, was accused of committing …