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Seven Vietnamese children with a muscle-atrophy disease have been saved by the most expensive medicine in the world thanks to a controversial lucky draw program. When he was only three months old, Tuan Kiet’s parents brought him to the Vietnam National Hospital of Pediatrics in Hanoi after noticing symptoms of …

A vehicle in southern China careened off a cliff on Friday, killing 11 passengers, state media reported. The accident occurred at around 6:30 am (2230 GMT Thursday) in Guangxi province when the vehicle carrying 14 people fell into a pool of water, according to CCTV. A preliminary confirmation showed that …

HCMC People’s Court sentenced a South Korean businessman to death on Friday for murdering a countryman over an unpaid debt before cutting his body into pieces. Jeong In Cheol, 38, and his family moved to Vietnam in 2010, and later established a company in HCMC with his wife in 2018. …

A brawl erupted at a wedding in HCMC on Thursday between friends of the bride and groom, resulting in several being injured. Video footage of the dispute at the wedding at Dam Sen water park in District 11 showed dozens of people getting into a verbal disagreement, before one member …

Singapore hanged a man for trafficking drugs, said the authorities, marking its second execution in three weeks. The alleged accused was convicted in 2019 of trafficking around 1.5 kilos (3.3 pounds) of cannabis, Kokila Annamalai of local rights group Transformative Justice Collective told news agency AFP. Singapore has one of …

Indonesian mother-of-three Aslem was a domestic worker in Dubai when she started wiring cash to a self-professed shaman, believing that he would honour his promise to magically multiply her hard-earned wages. But she returned home last year penniless and in shock, saying she had been swindled out of her life …

Representatives from the Ministry of Education and Training and Times Higher Education (THE) on Thursday discussed cooperation to improve the quality of higher education in Vietnam. Times Higher Education is known for publishing the annual Times Higher Education – QS World University Rankings. Pham Quang Hung, Director of the ministry’s …

Police in Thanh Hoa Province have arrested three Iranian men for allegedly stealing VND100 million (US$4,300) from a store. Three Iranian men at a police station in Thanh Hoa Province, May 2023. Photo by VnExpress/Lam Son On the afternoon of April 24 Sabri Bejandi Mehdi, 45, Aslrosta Maddi, 43, and …

Group of Seven (G7) leaders laid wreaths in the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Friday, almost 78 years after it was attacked with a nuclear bomb, in a sombre start of a summit expected to put more sanctions on Russia for its attacks in Ukraine. Hiroshima’s legacy as the first …

A woman in the southern Binh Duong Province allegedly beat her one-year-old child to death in a rage after he refused to stop crying. Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, 23, was arrested by the police on Thursday. Thao, an employee at a karaoke parlor, lives with her two young children in …