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Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has requested that construction of the Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien metro line finish by Sept. 2, three months earlier than planned. Chinh made the decision upon attending a trial run session of the metro line on Saturday, the second time he inspected the progress of the …

Depending on which side you’re on, tech giant Microsoft is either the hero fighting to bring some of the most popular video games to more people, or the villain on the brink of killing competition in the sector. The Xbox-owner has embarked on a campaign to convince all three EU, …

South Korea’s military fired warning shots to turn back a patrol boat from the North that had crossed the countries’ de facto maritime border, Seoul said Sunday. The boat breached the Northern Limit Line on Saturday morning near South Korea’s Baekryeong Island, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a …

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that Vietnamese food is some of the tastiest in the world. “You can’t visit Vietnam and not sample the food. Vietnamese cuisine has some of the freshest flavors and we see its influence across the U.S. in our own restaurants,” his Twitter …

Japan needs to increase security as Group of Seven officials visit, the country’s prime minister said Sunday, a day after an explosive was thrown at him during a campaign event. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida escaped unharmed after the device, reportedly a pipe bomb, was thrown towards him as he campaigned …

The G7 pledged on Sunday to speed up the phase-out of fossil fuels and urged other countries to do the same, but did not set any new deadlines on the exit from polluting energy sources such as coal. In a statement following two days of talks in Japan, climate and …

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked the U.S. to restrict the imposition of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties, as well as other unnecessary measures, on Vietnamese goods. Receiving U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Hanoi Saturday, Chinh said that Vietnam considers the U.S. one of its most important partners. …

General Party Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on Saturday said the Vietnam-U.S. relations have had several positive achievements, which would serve as a foundation to reach new heights. Receiving U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Hanoi, Trong congratulated Blinken’s first visit to Vietnam as Secretary of State, adding that the …

Influenced by the El Nino phenomenon, Vietnam will experience a summer with higher temperatures than normal but fewer storms. Hoang Phuc Lam, deputy director of the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF), said the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, a recurring climate pattern caused by changes in water temperature in the central …

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday said he highly regards the importance of the U.S.’s partnership with Vietnam, saying their bilateral relations have remarkably developed. A decade since the United States and Vietnam launched Comprehensive Partnership, and nearly 28 years since the two countries normalized relations, “our nations …