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A white powder found inside the White House late on Sunday was identified by Washington’s fire department and emergency services as cocaine, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The source said the powder was found in the West Wing, but gave no further details. The West Wing …

Vung Tau City of the southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province will begin to charge parked cars on 23 streets between VND15,000-20,000 (63-84 cents) starting July 15. Nguyen Trung Thuy, deputy chairman of the Vung Tau People’s Committee, on Tuesday said cars with 25 seats and below, as well as trucks …

South Korea will issue its own response as soon as possible after the U.N. nuclear watchdog approved Japan’s plan to release treated radioactive water from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima plant into the ocean, a government official said on Wednesday. After a two-year review, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Japan’s …

Hanoi should phase out the trading and consumption of dog and cat meat, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has said. Hanoi is a “city for peace” [a title granted by the UNESCO in 1999] that attracts millions of visitors every year, the department’s deputy director, Ta Van Tuong, …

One more suspect in the case of “terrorism aimed at opposing the people’s administration” in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has been put on the wanted list, the local police department said Tuesday. The suspect is Y Hual Eban, born in 1970 and residing in Map village of …

Companies caught out by China’s decision to restrict exports of two metals widely used in semiconductors and electric vehicles were racing to secure supplies on Tuesday as some industry suppliers worried that curbs on rare earth exports could follow. Monday’s abrupt announcement of controls from Aug. 1 on exports of …

Japan has formally accepted a WTO agreement on curbing harmful fishing subsidies, the global trade body said Tuesday, joining the United States, China and the European Union. After more than two decades of negotiations towards banning subsidies that encourage overfishing and threaten the sustainability of fish stocks worldwide, a deal, …

Scientists have found a new species of slender gecko in the lowland monsoon forest of Cat Tien National Park in southern Vietnam. As announced by the Joint Vietnam – Russia Tropical Science and Technology Research Center, the new gecko is named Hemiphyllodactylus cattien. A group of scientists, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, …

An employee at the Da Nang Airport has been caught hiding a South Korean passenger’s phone underneath a tree before trying to steal it. The airport’s security center said on Tuesday that the employee, a 56-year-old custodian, had violated “procedures to deal with belongings whose owners could not be confirmed.” …

A group of neighbors joined forces Tuesday to break through the metal bars of a balcony and rescue a family of three trapped inside their burning home. At around 6 a.m., flames and smoke began to engulf the first floor of a house on TA16 Street in Ho Chi Minh …