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The Dau Giay – Phan Thiet Expressway will be open to traffic from Saturday, reducing the travel time from HCMC to Phan Thiet beach town by three hours. The expressway stretches 99 km going through Dong Nai and Binh Thuan provinces. It is connected with the Ho Chi Minh City …

The Dau Giay – Phan Thiet Expressway will be open to traffic from Saturday, reducing the travel time from HCMC to Phan Thiet beach town by three hours. The expressway stretches 99 km going through Dong Nai and Binh Thuan provinces. It is connected with the Ho Chi Minh City …

India’s population is expected to match China’s by the end of April and then to surpass it as the world’s most populous country, the United Nations said on Monday. The announcement by the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) comes days after the UN Population Fund said last …

Two brothers in the central province of Nghe An saved the lives of four tourists swept away at sea Sunday. Dau Khac Binh, 36, and Dau Minh Yen, 38, both fishermen, were throwing nets about 50 m off Cua Lo Beach at around 5:15 a.m. when they saw four men …

More cases of people aged 25-35 hospitalized for cardiovascular diseases are being recorded in Vietnam, according to doctors. In the past two years, the Hospital of Post and Telecommunications in Hanoi has treated 500 patients with cardiovascular diseases and around 20% are patients under 40, the hospital’s director Tran Hung …

China respects the status of former Soviet member states as sovereign nations, its foreign ministry said on Monday, after comments by its envoy to Paris triggered an uproar among European capitals. Several EU foreign ministers had said earlier that comments by ambassador Lu Shaye – in which he appeared to …

Top cryptocurrency bitcoin could reach $100,000 by the end of 2024, Standard Chartered said on Monday, saying that the so-called “crypto winter” is over. Bitcoin could gain from factors including the recent turmoil in the banking sector, a stabilization of risk assets as the U.S. Federal Reserve ends its rate-hiking …

Ha An, 22, says she was scared when naked bodies with her face superimposed on them spread on social media like Twitter and groups on Telegram. The blogger says: “I turned red on seeing those photos. I never took them, it was just my face being edited in.” She had …

An endangered Hoan Kiem Turtle, among the last of its kind, has died at a Hanoi lake. Phung Huy Vinh, head of the economic department of Son Tay Town, said a member of a non-profit turtle protection group found the dead Swinhoe’s softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei) at Dong Mo Lake …

Cambodia is scheduled to start the construction of the Phnom Penh-Bavet Expressway close to Vietnam’s Moc Bai international border gate in June 2023, said Cambodia’s transport minister Sun Chanthol. Speaking at an inauguration ceremony of a traffic project in Phnom Penh on April 21, the Minister of Public Works and …