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Border guards at Mong Cai International Border Gate on Thursday coordinated with local forces to return three Chinese nationals who illegally entered Vietnam. Earlier on June 9 a patrol team from the Tra Co Border Guard Station found the three men at an oyster farm of a local household. The …

In 2018 Paul Wang left his home in Beijing to start a new life in Australia, investing A$1 million (US$680,000) in a food processing business in the hopes of qualifying for permanent residency under the country’s investment visa scheme. Five years on, his hopes for his family of three remain …

HCMC will start relocating underground electricity, water and telecommunications infrastructure this month to make way for its metro line No.2. Electricity cables will be removed first starting June 22, followed by telecom cables and sewers. The relocation is targeted to be finished within the third quarter of this year, the …

Average global temperatures at the start of June were the warmest the European Union’s climate monitoring unit has ever recorded for the period, trouncing previous records by a “substantial margin”, it said on Thursday. The news comes as the El Nino climate phenomenon has officially arrived, raising fears of extreme …

HCMC’s Department of Industry and Trade has proposed a wind power project in the remote district of Can Gio. The proposed seaside project could generate up to 6,000 MW of electricity for the national grid. Costing VND400 trillion (US$16.9 billion), the project would begin generating energy in 2030, the department …

Professor Nguyen Thuc Quyen from the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2023 de Gennes Prize for her advancements in climate-friendly technology. Nguyen, 53, is currently director of the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids at the University of California Santa Barbara. On …

One of the masterminds who orchestrated deadly attacks on two commune People’s Committee offices in the Central Highlands’ Dak Lak Province has been arrested. Y Tho Ayun, 35, also known as Ama Kzruh, told authorities he had incited villagers in Dak Lak to carry out the gun attacks on the …

Senior police lieutenant Dam Dinh Bop, who survived the deadly attacks on Central Highlands commune offices and police stations this weekend, wept for his his deceased comrades. As he lay on a hospital bed at Central Highlands General Hospital in Buon Me Thuot City, Bop, deputy police chief of Ea …

Singapore will “progressively deploy” more patrol robots across the city-state, police said Thursday, after more than five years of small-scale trials. Robots were deployed at Changi Airport’s Terminal 4 starting in April “to augment frontline police officers in conducting premises patrol,” the Singapore Police Force (SPF) said. More deployments are …

Chinese Premier Li Qiang will visit Germany and France from June 18 to 23, Beijing’s foreign ministry said on Thursday. Li will “take part in the seventh round of China-Germany government consultations, and also pay an official visit to France,” foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said in a statement. “At …