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An endangered Indian python in central Ha Tinh Province was captured after swallowing a one-month-old calf. Nguyen Thi Thuy went to her family’s farm next to a hill in Ky Anh District on Monday, but could not see her calf anywhere. When she reached the cow shed, she discovered a …

A man in Hanoi has been sent to prison after helping a man to cut off somebody’s leg on the street last year. Nguyen Huy Hoang, 23, was sentenced to five years in jail for “Deliberate infliction of bodily harm upon another person” by the Hanoi People’s Court on Tuesday. …

Japan is working towards the opening of a NATO liaison office in Tokyo, Japan’s ambassador to theU.S.Koji Tomita said on Tuesday. Tomita made the comment at an event hosted by the National Press Club in Washington when asked about a report in the Nikkei Asia this month saying that the …

A high-stakes meeting between President Joe Biden and key lawmakers from both parties on Tuesday yielded no breakthrough on the impasse over the U.S. debt limit, but the group agreed to keep trying to avert a devastating default. Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, …

The United Arab Emirates said on Tuesday that countries should agree to phase out fuel emissions – not the production of oil, gas and coal – at the upcoming U.N. climate change negotiations that it will host this December. The comments reflect deep divisions between nations over how to combat …

The Vietnam National Children’s Hospital in Hanoi has treated three children, including a five-year who was brought comatose, who were drugged after eating narcotics-laced cakes. Dr Nguyen Tan Hung, deputy head of the hospital’s emergency and poison control department, said the five-year-old boy was admitted also with respiratory failure, Vietnam …

Three Vietnamese have been sentenced to prison for selling bank accounts to a Malaysian conman. The Da Nang People’s Court sentenced 27-year-old Ho Van Nghia to 17 years in prison on Monday, while 33-year-old Nguyen Duy Phuong got 16 years and Nguyen Van Do, 22, got 13 years. All three …

Vietnam’s capital Hanoi will spend VND2.5 trillion (US$106.5 million) on seven “advanced and modern” grade 1-12 schools. The city People’s Committee said the seven schools will break ground next year using the municipal budget. Set for completion in the last quarter of 2025, each of the seven schools will receive …

Vietnam and Indonesia should strengthen their maritime cooperation and set up hotlines for fishers, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh told Indonesian President Joko Widodo Tuesday. At a meeting in Labuan Bajo Town in Indonesia, he said the two sides should foster commercial ties, and called on Indonesia to allow Vietnamese …

At least 21 people died on Tuesday when a bus crashed off a bridge in India, officials said, reportedly after the driver fell asleep at the wheel. The vehicle smashed through a barrier and plummeted around six metres (20 feet) onto a dry river bed south of the central city …