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The foreign ministry has publicly rejected China’s recent illegal installation of light buoys in Vietnamese waters. “The installation of light buoys at entities [in waters around] the Spratly Islands without Vietnam’s approval is a violation of Vietnam’s sovereignty over the islands, and thus has no legal value,” deputy spokeswoman of …

Of 135 cases of online child abuse handled by police in the first quarter of this year, 116 were related to sexual harassment. In such cases, most of the predators involved either showed children pornographic videos and/or asked the children to have sex with them, said Lieutenant Le Nhat Thinh …

Vietnam demanded that China pull its survey ship Xiangyanghong 10 and other vessels out of Vietnamese exclusive economic zone on Thursday. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other Vietnamese authorities have dialogued with China multiple times, and [the Vietnam side has] performed appropriate measures in accordance with Vietnamese and international …

Two more Vietnamese were confirmed dead in a car crash in China last weekend, bringing the total number of Vietnamese casualties in the incident to 11, Vietnam’s foreign ministry said. Besides the 11 Vietnamese casualties, two Vietnamese and the Chinese driver were injured when a seven-seat car fell off a …

A state-sponsored Chinese hacking group has been spying on a wide range of U.S. critical infrastructure organizations, from telecommunications to transportation hubs, Western intelligence agencies and Microsoft said on Wednesday. The espionage has also targeted the U.S. island territory of Guam, home to strategically important American military bases, Microsoft said …

An Giang and Dong Thap provinces in the Mekong Delta have recorded five serious cases of river erosion in a week, causing locals and businesses to instantly lose properties. On Wednesday morning, four houses in An Giang’s Chau Phu District collapsed into the Xep Ka Tam Pong River in less …

Beijing’s restrictions on American chipmaker Micron in retaliation to sweeping U.S. chip curbs mark a major step up in its response to Washington’s pressure and could open the door for further measures in the geopolitical standoff, analysts say. But they warned President Xi Jinping’s ability to raise the stakes will …

South Korea will launch its homegrown Nuri rocket on Thursday, officials said, a day after it was forced to postpone due to a technical glitch just hours before lift-off. It will be the third launch of the Nuri, which successfully put test satellites into orbit last year after a failed …

The World Health Organization has dispatched rare drug to HCMC to treat patients critically ill with botulism after eating pork bologna and fermented food, but one died shortly after it arrived. Sent from Switzerland, six vials of botulism antitoxin heptavalent (BAT) arrived on Wednesday to be administered to the three …

Ratings agency Fitch on Wednesday put the United States’ credit on watch for a possible downgrade, raising the stakes as negotiations over the country’s debt ceiling go down to the wire. Fitch put the country’s “AAA” rating, its highest rank, on a negative watch in a precursor to a possible …