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A former Hanoi company chairman was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for swindling VND570 billion ($24.2 million) out of people by selling them phony “investments.” Pham Thanh Hai, 57, former chairman of the International Trade, Investment and Development Technology Company (IDT), was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Hanoi …

An area in September 23rd Park in downtown Ho Chi Minh City has been cleared from the metro line construction site after seven years. The cleared part of 8,000 sq.m is half of the park’s area that has been occupied since 2016 to serve the building of Ben Thanh underground …

A man from the Mekong Delta’s Long An Province has been arrested for allegedly hiding heroin inside boxes of face masks he tried to ship to Australia. When Ho Chi Minh City customs officers searched a “suspicious” shipment of goods en-route to Australia on April 22 they found around a …

President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he will seek a second White House term in 2024, a decision that will test whether Americans are ready to give the 80-year-old Democrat, already the oldest U.S. president ever, another four years in office. Biden made his announcement in a slickly produced video …

Representatives of 32 Vietnamese universities attended a workshop in HCMC Tuesday to discuss solutions to attract students from the U.S., home to many of the world’s top schools. Dinh Kim Phung, deputy head of the External and Public Relations Office at the International University at Vietnam National University, HCMC, said …

Hai Phong will restrict car access to Cat Ba Island during the Reunification Day and Labor Day holiday as well as on weekends to prevent congestion at a ferry port. The Hai Phong People’s Committee said trucks and cars with 4-7 seats will no longer be allowed to go to …

Mitsubishi Motors Corp will take a one-time hit of 10.5 billion yen ($78.31 million) related to slowing sales at its China unit, it said on Tuesday, as mounting competition in the world’s largest auto market hits foreign automakers. Mitsubishi made no changes to its full-year results forecast as the impact …

Around 50 have been detained as police probe the case of four Vietnam Airlines flight attendants caught transporting over 11 kg of drugs from Paris to HCMC. “These people are related to leads that delivered and received drugs smuggling into Vietnam from abroad,” a source close to the case told …

The company that is building the 49-km Nha Trang – Cam Lam Expressway in the central region wants it opened to traffic in late May instead of September as scheduled. Nguyen Van Huy, director of the Nha Trang – Cam Lam Expressway Investment Company, Ltd., said the construction had started …

A man in the central province of Nghe An was thrown off his motorbike and killed after he tried to pass a car at a curvy section and lost control.     Traffic camera: Motorcyclist falls off road, dies after driving between two cars Xe máy va chạm ô tô …