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Director of the Ho Chi Minh Finance Department Le Duy Minh was arrested Tuesday for allegedly receiving bribes from an oil trading company. The arrest, announced by spokesman for the Ministry of Public Security To An Xo, is the latest development in a larger case involving bribery and mismanagement of …

Ho Chi Minh City temperatures will remain high this Christmas due to El Nino and the lessened impact of low-pressure cold fronts from the north, meteorologists said. For more than a few days, the southern metropolis has seen temperatures hover around 36-37 degrees Celsius, with the heat lasting all day …

Thailand’s cabinet on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for parliament to debate legalizing same-sex unions, moving the kingdom a step closer to equalizing marriage rights. Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said the changes would strengthen family structures, and parliament is now expected to debate the measures as early as Thursday. The legislation …

Google parent Alphabet has agreed to pay $700 million as part of an antitrust settlement made public on Monday, with the funds going to U.S. customers of its Android app store and state governments. As part of the settlement, the company will make changes to its Google Play app store …

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong stressed the need to stay consistent in principles and flexible in policies and strategies while performing diplomatic tasks, in his remarks on Dec. 19. Addressing the 32nd National Diplomatic Conference in Hanoi, Trong elaborated on the principles of national independence and socialism, and stressed …

A car roamed into a container truck’s front wheels and was turned horizontal after its driver tried to pass the truck in the same direction in the northern province of Bac Ninh. The car was moving on the truck’s right side along National Highway 18 in Que Vo District on Dec. …

Rescuers in remote villages of northwest China dug through the rubble of collapsed homes on Tuesday after China’s deadliest earthquake in years killed at least 118 people and injured hundreds more. Officials in impoverished Gansu province said the shallow tremor just before midnight had caused the deaths of at least …

Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health has announced that its Health Insurance for Non-Thai People (Hint) system will debut on Jan. 1, 2024, allowing stateless and non-Thai people to get access to healthcare coverage. Dr Surachoke Tangwiwat, the ministry’s acting deputy permanent secretary, said the Public Health Minister Cholnan Srikaew has …

10 people riding Harley motorbikes into a car-exclusive lane on Binh Loi Bridge in HCMC’s Binh Thanh District were fined VND5 million ($205) and had their licenses revoked. Each rider was fined VND500,000 each and had licenses suspended for two months by traffic police officers of Hang Xanh on Monday. …

Police in the central Quang Ngai Province arrested a man on Monday for confronting a 14-year-old boy outside his school and assaulting him so badly he needed hospitalization. Phan Thuong My, 44, faces charges of “intentionally causing injuries.” According to the police, My’s son, a ninth grader, lost a calculator …