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A project to conserve the critically-endangered golden-headed langur on Cat Ba Island off Hai Phong City is under threat from growing tourism activities. In the last century Cat Ba was home to thousands of golden-headed langurs, one of five endemic primate species in Vietnam. The others are Delacour’s langur, snub-nosed …

Over 1,200 iPhones, tablets and other electronic devices worth VND4 billion ($170,000) were destroyed by the Hanoi Directorate for Market Surveillance due to their trade being undocumented. The 1,235 devices were smashed and dumped into buckets of water and oil in northern Hung Yen Province last Friday to render them …

The luxury project Capital Elite made its debut with a grand opening ceremony on Sunday at JW Marriott Hotel Hanoi, with the unveiling of its first limited unit inventory. Themed “Unlock the Elite”, the official launch and sale of the project’s foreigner quota attracted customers and investors from both domestic …

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol departed Seoul for Paris on Monday to support his country’s bid to host Expo 2030, part of a foreign trip that will also include meetings with the leaders of France and Vietnam, his office said. Yoon will address the general assembly of the International …

At least 54 people died in a district in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh over the last few days, the Times of India newspaper reported, as authorities probed if the loss of lives was due to the heat wave in the region. Another 45 people died in neighboring …

One person died while another was injured during a landslide at the Da Lat pass expansion site. A 6-meter high cliff, near a construction site for the expansion of the Prenn Pass in Da Lat of the Central Highlands Lam Dong Province, fell on Pham Minh Duc, 30, and Nguyen …

From cutting salaries and bonuses and asking staff not to wear expensive clothes and watches at work, to reining in travel and entertainment expenses, Chinese financial firms have jumped on an austerity drive as Beijing pushes to bridge the wealth gap. The steps come as authorities vow to clamp down …

Ford Motor (F.N) Executive Chairman Bill Ford said the United States was not ready yet to compete with China in the production of electric vehicles. “They developed very quickly, and they developed them in large scale. And now they’re exporting them,” Ford told CNN’s ‘Fareed Zakaria GPS’ Sunday program. “They’re …

U.S. chipmaker Intel Corp will spend $25 billion on a new factory in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, calling it the largest-ever international investment in the country. The factory in Kiryat Gat is due to open in 2027, to operate through 2035 at least and to employ …

A total of 789 Japanese candidates participated in the 6th Vietnamese-language proficiency test held at the Japan College of Foreign Languages (JCFL) in Tokyo on Sunday. The candidates from 35 localities across Japan are those who study or do jobs relating to Vietnamese such as Vietnamese language students at universities, …