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At least 72 people have died by drowning in the Philippines since the start of the month, police said Monday, attributing the unusually high figure in part to millions hitting the beach for Holy Week. The holiday is traditionally marked in the Catholic-majority nation by millions of people leaving the …

The investor in the Long Thanh Airport project will fund the installation of air conditioners at schools that have been affected by dust from the construction site. The investor, Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV), a joint-stock company with 95.4% state-owned shares, will spend VND300 million (US$12,840) to install air conditioners …

Hau, a garment factory worker in Hanoi’s Long Bien District, has paid social insurance premiums for 34 years. After more than three decades of sitting at sewing machines, the 54-year-old now suffers from pain in the back, neck and joints. With his children grown up and being able to take …

Two ships of the Vietnam Coast Guard left Dinh Vu Port in Hai Phong on Sunday for a joint patrol with the China Coast Guard in waters adjacent to the Gulf of Tonkin demarcation line. This is the first such activity in 2023 and the sixth between the two sides …

Tesla Inc is opening a factory in Shanghai, capable of producing ten thousand Megapack energy product per year, to supplement output of Megapack factory in California, the company said in a tweet on Sunday. The news was first reported by Chinese state media outlet Xinhua. Elon Musk’s automaker will break …

Highly classified military and intelligence documents that appeared online, with details ranging from Ukraine’s air defenses to Israel’s Mossad spy agency, have U.S. officials scrambling to identify the leak’s source, with some Western security experts and U.S. officials saying they suspected it could be someone from the United States. Officials …

Pope Francis appeared to ask Russians to seek the truth about their country’s invasion of Ukraine in his Easter message to the world on Sunday and appealed for dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians following recent violence. Francis, 86, presided at a solemn Easter day Mass in a sunny St. Peter’s …

Thanks to youth volunteers, Bach Long Vy, a frontline island off Vietnam’s northern coast, has been turned from an uninhabited piece of land in the sea into a residential island after 30 years. 20 years ago, Nguyen Van Hau joined 31 other volunteers on a quest to reclaim Bach Long …

Ride hailing service provider Grab has apologized for using a map that mislabeling Vietnamese islands as China’s, saying it is fixing the information. People booking Grab rides over the weekend discovered various misinformation on the app’s map. Among islands in the Truong Sa archipelago, only Son Ca and Sinh Ton …

Thailand’s decriminalization of cannabis has delighted its fans, alarmed some health experts and has increasingly disappointed farmers who have been undercut by illegal imports, sending a promise of a new bonanza crop up in smoke. Marijuana has also become an election football with the opposition criticizing the ruling pro-military coalition …