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Police in Quang Tri Province have fined an 11th grade student VND4 million (US$150) for riding a motorbike on the streets with his feet on the handlebar. The police penalized him for endangering public safety after a video of him doing the stunt surfaced online. At around 4:30 p.m. on …

Sudan’s warring factions early on Friday committed to protect civilians and the movement of humanitarian aid, but did not agree to a ceasefire and remain far apart, U.S. officials said. After a week of talks in the Saudi port of Jeddah, Sudan’s army and rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) …

Ronald Ignacio became a nurse at the height of the Philippines’ nursing boom in 2008, when there were not enough jobs in the health system for the many thousands of newly qualified nurses. At first, he struggled to find a job, so instead worked on a farm for two years. …

Thu Duc, Vietnam’s first city within a city, was ranked last on Ho Chi Minh City’s first-ever competitiveness index evaluating its districts and municipal government departments. The 2022 Department and District Competitiveness Index (DDCI HCMC) released Thursday showed Thu Duc City scored under 50 on a scale of 100. The …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will not be able to deliver a video message at the Eurovision final, the song contest’s organizer said Thursday. The English city of Liverpool is hosting the musical extravaganza after Britain agreed to accommodate the song contest instead of 2022 winner Ukraine due to the war. …

A Vietnamese-Canadian has been arrested in Ho Chi Minh City for trafficking hundreds of kilograms of drugs following gambling losses in Cambodia. Municipal police said on Thursday they had arrested Chu Ba Chung, 39, for trafficking hundreds of kilograms of drugs from Cambodia to Vietnam. Five other people, including 26-year-old …

Three people in HCMC were arrested Wednesday for hiding cannabis inside packets of tea and selling them. Tran Nhat Vinh, 29, Tran Tri Minh Sang, 21, and Luu Thi Thai were arrested by Tan Binh District police as part of a drug trafficking investigation. Police raided Vinh’s house on Nguyen …

The United States returned two looted antiquities to China, the latest in a wave of repatriations of artifacts stolen from more than a dozen countries, New York authorities announced Tuesday. The two 7th-century stone carvings, currently valued at $3.5 million, had been sawn off a tomb by thieves in the …

Four children in central Thanh Hoa Province have been hospitalized as a safety precaution after receiving vaccine shots that were two months out of date. The medical station of Thang Binh Commune, Nong Cong District on Tuesday vaccinated 15 children in the area. Among the shots were six 6-in-1 vaccine …

Stranded without work for months, hundreds of South Asian migrants in Malaysia say they are losing hope after failing to find jobs promised to them by recruitment agents in exchange for thousands of dollars in fees. At a students’ dormitory about 40 km (25 miles) from the capital, Kuala Lumpur, …