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Any survey of the Spratly Islands conducted without Vietnam’s approval is a violation of the nation’s sovereignty, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reasserted in response to new Chinese incursions. “Surveying and performing scientific research without Vietnam’s approval within the proximity of the Spratly Islands and Vietnamese sea regions is …

Vietnam has called for the removal of misinformation contained in a documentary about missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 as the film has not accurately reflected Vietnam’s search and rescue efforts. At a press conference Thursday, deputy spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pham Thu Hang described assumptions made in …

Police said 21 officials pocketed VND170 billion (US$7.27 million) in bribes from over 100 firms to organize repatriation flights during the Covid-19 pandemic. In March 2020, when the Covid-19 situation was serious in China, Vietnam organized a flight to bring 30 citizens stuck in Wuhan City back home. After that, …

Earth had its second-warmest March on record with Antarctic sea ice shrinking to its second-lowest extent, the EU’s climate monitoring agency said on Thursday. “The month was jointly the second warmest March globally,” said a report from the Copernicus Climate Change Service. The report is based on computer-generated analyses using …

Nguyen Duc Thang was riding on his motorbike through an intersection in Hanoi when he heard the sound of a roaring car engine. Within seconds, he was knocked to the road and passed out. Thang, 34, was one of 22 victims of a traffic accident at the Xuan La-Vo Chi …

Among the French business executives traveling to Beijing with President Emmanuel Macron, the mood was cautiously sanguine on the thawing post-pandemic trade prospects with China, with some rejecting American-led calls for ‘decoupling’. Macron traveled to China with a 50-strong delegation of business leaders including the CEOs of Airbus, Alstom and …

With Son Tra Nature Reserve requesting no entrance fee, poachers have turned it into their own backyard. One day in early April, a group of photographers saved a silver weasel stuck in a trap after hearing it crying for help as they were trekking in the forest in the Son …

Apple Inc on Wednesday revealed the look of its first retail store in India, as several people tried to catch a glimpse outside the store’s black and yellow artwork patterned after Mumbai’s iconic taxis. The store is still in barricades and is likely to open this month, a person familiar …

Workers have built 10 reservoirs to provide water for spraying away dust generated by the construction of the Long Thanh Airport, which will be Vietnam’s largest. The 10 reservoirs will provide water for 60 trucks, including two fire trucks, to spray the ground where Long Thanh International Airport is under …

Philippines toy maker David Tan is flooded with orders from grieving pet owners who want to memorialize their dogs, cats, hamsters and rabbits with stuffed toys or ‘plushies.’ Tan and a team of 20 employees use photos sent by customers to create life-like replicas of their deceased pets using synthetic …