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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent documents to the Vietnamese Embassy in Myanmar to verify the origin of the object claimed as “Buddha hair sarira” displayed at a Vietnam pagoda. A representative of the Department of Southeast Asian-South Asian-South Pacific Affairs under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday …

A HCMC court sentenced local man Nguyen Liao Hung Tran, 30, to death for having 5.8 kg of drugs delivered to him from Germany by mail. He was sentenced for transportation and illegal possession of drugs. Tran was at home in District 4 on the afternoon of May 13, 2022, …

Lao Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone and his spouse arrived in Hanoi Saturday, beginning a two-day official visit to Vietnam upon the invitation of his counterpart Pham Minh Chinh. Sonexay Siphandone was received by Chinh at a welcome ceremony and then held talks with the Vietnamese PM. They will co-chair the …

A man who drove a Mercedes car at 210 kph on a new Mekong Delta expressway and made a TikTok video of it has been fined VND22 million (US$900). The 37-year-old man who lives in the delta’s An Giang Province was fined for speeding but also driving with an expired …

The highest salary paid out in Hanoi last year was VND125 million ($5,129), according to statistics from the Hanoi labor department. That’s over $60,000 a year, compared to the national average Vietnamese earnings of $2,300, according to the General Statistics Office data of 2022. A report by the Hanoi Department …

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear Donald Trump’s appeal of a judicial decision barring the former president from Colorado’s Republican primary ballot, taking up a politically explosive case with major implications for the 2024 presidential election. Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign …

OpenAI and its financial backer Microsoft were sued on Friday in Manhattan federal court by a pair of nonfiction authors who say the companies misused their work to train the artificial-intelligence models behind the popular chatbot ChatGPT and other AI-based services. This illustration photograph taken on October 30, 2023, shows …

A central Vietnam land official has been arrested for killing a cyclist while driving drunk and then driving away, dragging the victim’s bicycle for 5 km while she died on the road. Police in Thanh Hoa Province announced on Friday that Le Van Tho, 29, who works at the land …

Australia’s top university, the University of Melbourne, has added 11 Vietnamese high schools to its direct admission list, bringing the total Vietnamese schools on the list to 23. Lam Minh Khoa, Country Manager of the University of Melbourne in Vietnam, said Thursday that the new policy would take effect from …

Two directors from two companies were put under investigation for illegally exporting rare earths worth VND7.8 billion ($320,223) to China. Tran Duc, director of the Duong Lieu Logistic Company, and Nguyen Thanh Doan, director of the Truong Son War Invalids Company, were put under investigation by the police from the …