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Ho Chi Minh City leaders have ordered plans for a shaded area on Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street and Bach Dang Wharf Park in the heart of the downtown area. Chairman Phan Van Mai has ordered Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Planning and Architecture to work with District 1 on …

Human traffickers are luring their victims with promises of easy jobs with high incomes, or marriages to foreign nationals, according to the Judiciary Committee of the National Assembly. From 2018 to 2022, around 440 cases of human trafficking were busted in Vietnan, with over 1,200 victims involved, and women accounting …

The Ministry of Health said the pandemic remains a threat though the World Health Organization has declared Covid-19 is no longer a global health emergency. Phan Trong Lan, director of the ministry’s Department of Preventive Medicine, told the media on Monday: “The pandemic is not yet over, Covid-19 has always …

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh left Hanoi on Tuesday morning for the 42nd ASEAN Summit in Indonesia, at the invitation of Indonesian President and Chairman of the Summit Joko Widodo. He is accompanied by high-ranking officials of the National Assembly and ministries. The 42nd ASEAN Summit is taking place in …

A man was found dead Monday at the foot of a Buddha statue on Cao Cat Mountain on Phu Quy Island off the central coast. The police said the person was around 1.7 m tall and unusually white-skinned, had black hair with a crew cut, and was wearing a gray …

Companies in Singapore are partially paying housing costs of employees and even relocating staff to cheaper neighboring cities to help them tackle home rents that rose last year at their fastest rate in 15 years. But with private housing rents in Singapore maintaining the scorching pace of gains in 2023, …

China is hammering out details with Singapore on a bilateral visa-free travel arrangement, according to Beijing’s embassy, a move that could boost arrivals in the city-state from what was its biggest pre-pandemic tourism market. There were 3.6 million Chinese visitors to Singapore in 2019, more than any other country, who …

Four people were detained in Tokyo on Monday after they smashed their way into a luxury watch shop and stole items worth over $740,000, local media said. The robbery in the upscale Ginza district was an unusual attempted heist in a country with famously low levels of crime. Three people …

A Vietnamese national was arrested in Thailand on charges of falsifying documents to sell other people’s land. Min Sen Wan, 55, was arrested in Udon Thani Province on Saturday, the Bangkok Post reported. Min had been wanted since November last year for using false documents and lying to authorities to …

Coast guards have released four sea turtles into waters off Kien Giang Province after they were caught by local fishermen. A sea turtle weighing more than 80 kg and measuring 1.2 m long was released into the sea on Monday morning, after it was caught by fishermen on Phu Quoc …