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More cases of people aged 25-35 hospitalized for cardiovascular diseases are being recorded in Vietnam, according to doctors. In the past two years, the Hospital of Post and Telecommunications in Hanoi has treated 500 patients with cardiovascular diseases and around 20% are patients under 40, the hospital’s director Tran Hung …

China respects the status of former Soviet member states as sovereign nations, its foreign ministry said on Monday, after comments by its envoy to Paris triggered an uproar among European capitals. Several EU foreign ministers had said earlier that comments by ambassador Lu Shaye – in which he appeared to …

Top cryptocurrency bitcoin could reach $100,000 by the end of 2024, Standard Chartered said on Monday, saying that the so-called “crypto winter” is over. Bitcoin could gain from factors including the recent turmoil in the banking sector, a stabilization of risk assets as the U.S. Federal Reserve ends its rate-hiking …

Ha An, 22, says she was scared when naked bodies with her face superimposed on them spread on social media like Twitter and groups on Telegram. The blogger says: “I turned red on seeing those photos. I never took them, it was just my face being edited in.” She had …

An endangered Hoan Kiem Turtle, among the last of its kind, has died at a Hanoi lake. Phung Huy Vinh, head of the economic department of Son Tay Town, said a member of a non-profit turtle protection group found the dead Swinhoe’s softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei) at Dong Mo Lake …

Cambodia is scheduled to start the construction of the Phnom Penh-Bavet Expressway close to Vietnam’s Moc Bai international border gate in June 2023, said Cambodia’s transport minister Sun Chanthol. Speaking at an inauguration ceremony of a traffic project in Phnom Penh on April 21, the Minister of Public Works and …

The Ministry of Health has warned localities nationwide about 14 cough syrup products banned in some countries which have caused death or acute kidney damage for hundreds of children. Previously, the ministry received a relevant warning from the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) that these products, produced in India and …

A cold weather front will end a period of hot sunny days for the mountainous localities of the north, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting. The plains and the midlands of the north saw reduced temperatures on Monday, with Hanoi recording a maximum temperature of 29 degrees Celsius, …

China’s ambassador to France has sparked anger in eastern Europe and Ukraine while drawing a rebuke from Paris and the EU after questioning the sovereignty of post-Soviet countries. Speaking Friday on France’s LCI news channel, ambassador Lu Shaye suggested countries that emerged after the fall of the Soviet Union “don’t …

Australia unveiled its biggest military shakeup in decades on Monday, refocusing the armed forces on deterring would-be foes far from its shores. Sketching a future in which Australia would have substantially longer-range strike capability, Defense Minister Richard Marles said the decades-old territory-focused strategy was “no longer fit for purpose.” Facing …