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President Vo Van Thuong and his wife left Hanoi on July 23 morning for an official visit to Austria, a State visit to Italy and a visit to the Vatican. The visits, lasting until July 28, are made at the invitations of President of Austria Alexander Van der Bellen, President …

HCMC is considering adding three more metro lines to connect Tan Son Nhat airport and the Can Gio urban area to the national railway system. The plan, announced by the HCMC Department of Transport, aims to synchronize the city’s urban railway network as part of the metropolis’ urban planning efforts …

The People’s Council of Da Nang has approved free schooling for students from kindergarten to high school in the 2023-2024 academic year with a budget of VND408 billion (US$16.3 million). The decision was ratified at the council’s working session earlier this week, making it the only city in Vietnam to …

Former deputy foreign minister To Anh Dung expressed remorse, sobbed, and asked a Hanoi court for “maximum” leniency at his Covid-19 repatriation flight bribery trial Friday. On the 11th day of the trial the Hanoi People’s Court allowed the 54 defendants charged with taking and giving bribes to operate repatriation …

Prosecutors produced a video in court Friday showing a police officer facing bribery charges in the Covid-19 repatriation flight scandal receiving a briefcase, and said it had contained US$450,000. Hoang Van Hung, a former division head of the Ministry of Public Security’s investigation department, has been saying at the trial …

Tony Bennett, the last in a generation of classic American crooners whose ceaselessly cheery spirit bridged generations to make him a hitmaker across seven decades, died Friday in New York. He was 96. Raised in an era when big bands defined US pop music, Bennett achieved an improbable second act …

North Korea has fired “several cruise missiles” into the Yellow Sea between China and the Korean peninsula, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said Saturday. The launches, which the military said took place around 4 a.m. (1900 GMT), come as relations between the two Koreas are at one of their …

What happens to the body when a human gets heatstroke? How can we protect ourselves in a warming planet? To answer these burning questions, Arizona researchers have deployed a robot that can breathe, shiver and sweat. The southwestern state’s capital Phoenix is currently enduring its longest heat wave in history: …

Three new bridges will be built to create an alternate route southward from Ho Chi Minh City to Long An and Tien Giang provinces in the Mekong Delta. Crossing the Vam Co Dong, Vam Co Tay and Can Giuoc rivers, all of the bridges will be part of Provincial Road …

The Politburo, the Communist Party’s decision-making body, has forbidden family members from simultaneously assuming top leadership positions in 13 fields as part of recently coordinated anti-corruption efforts. Truong Thi Mai, Permanent Member of the Secretariat, has recently represented the Politburo and signed a decision on power management and corruption prevention. …