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HCMC plans to spend VND1 trillion ($42.5 million) over two years to displace infrastructure for land clearance for the second metro line’s construction. At the opening ceremony for the displacement of infrastructure for the Ben Thanh-Tham Luong metro line on Thursday, Nguyen Quoc Hien, deputy head of the HCMC Management …

Eleven people were injured on Cathay Pacific’s flight CX880 at Hong Kong’s international airport early on Saturday after the carrier aborted its take off due to a technical issue, Cathay said in a statement. The flight, from Hong Kong to Los Angeles, was carrying 17 crew and 293 passengers. It …

U.S. intelligence agencies found no direct evidence that the Covid-19 pandemic stemmed from an incident at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, a report declassified on Friday said. The four-page report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said the U.S. intelligence community still could not rule out …

A Romanian man accused of being a ringleader of a people smuggling operation pleaded guilty on Friday to the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants, who were found dead in a truck in southeast England. Marius Mihai Draghici, 50, was detained by police in Romania in August 2022 and charged by …

A 6-year-old student at a Hanoi school was forgotten on a bus for 30 minutes while on a field trip. Nguyen Thuy Hang, founder of the Archimedes School Network, a private school that claims to operate under international standards, said 20 students who were about to enter first grade at …

Several Da Lat streets flooded following a half-hour of heavy rain on Friday, felling trees and paralyzing vehicles. At around 1 p.m., widespread rain soaked the Central Highlands city in Lam Dong Province. The rain lasted for over half an hour, putting streets like Nguyen Thi Nghia, Nguyen Trai, Phan …

Of the 84 suspects arrested for their involvement in deadly attacks on People’s Committee offices in Dak Lak Province, 75 are being investigated for terrorism. Spokesman for the Ministry of Public Security To An Xo said on Friday that police in the Central Highlands’ Dak Lak Province had decided on …

The first ladies of South Korea and Vietnam enjoyed lotus tea, folk music and an ao dai (traditional Vietnamese dress) fashion show together Friday. Phan Thi Thanh Tam, wife of Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong invited Kim Keon-hee, wife of South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, to sip lotus tea. Kim …

Vietnam-South Korea relations will continue to develop successfully in the future, Vietnam Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong said at a Friday meeting with visiting South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol. Trong welcomed the South Korean President and his wife’s visit after the upgrading of the two countries’ official relationship …

Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong and his South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk-yeol on Friday agreed to bolster maritime security and commerce cooperation. “I and President Yoon Suk-yeol had a very successful dialogue and achieved several important points of consensus. After over 30 years of establishing diplomatic relations, the two countries …