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Swiss rolling stock manufacturer Stadler has said it wants to supply trains and other solutions for the proposed revival of the Thap Cham-Da Lat rail route. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently sent a document to the Lam Dong Province People’s Committee, relaying a message from the Switzerland Embassy in …

HCMC has begun to deploy Covid-19 prevention measures since the number of cases is rising across the country. In a communication sent to relevant agencies on Friday, deputy chairman of its People’s Committee, Duong Anh Duc, said the number of cases has been rising slightly in the city since the …

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has requested that construction of the Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien metro line finish by Sep. 2, three months earlier than planned. Chinh made the decision upon attending a trial run session of the metro line on Saturday, the second time he inspected the progress of the …

North Korea held a ceremony on Sunday to celebrate the completion of 10,000 new modern homes in the newly built Hwasong District in Pyongyang, state media KCNA reported. Leader Kim Jong Un took part in the ceremony, the report said, as well as a number of senior government officials including …

At least four people were killed, including a high school football player, in a shooting that erupted during a birthday party held inside a dance studio in the small town of Dadeville, Alabama, state police and local news media said on Sunday. In addition to the four people whose lives …

A fire in a residential building in Dubai killed 16 people and injured nine others in the wealthy Gulf emirate, the government said Sunday. The fire broke out at midday Saturday on the fourth floor of the building in the Al-Ras neighborhood in the old part of the city. The …

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has requested that construction of the Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien metro line finish by Sept. 2, three months earlier than planned. Chinh made the decision upon attending a trial run session of the metro line on Saturday, the second time he inspected the progress of the …

Depending on which side you’re on, tech giant Microsoft is either the hero fighting to bring some of the most popular video games to more people, or the villain on the brink of killing competition in the sector. The Xbox-owner has embarked on a campaign to convince all three EU, …

South Korea’s military fired warning shots to turn back a patrol boat from the North that had crossed the countries’ de facto maritime border, Seoul said Sunday. The boat breached the Northern Limit Line on Saturday morning near South Korea’s Baekryeong Island, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a …

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that Vietnamese food is some of the tastiest in the world. “You can’t visit Vietnam and not sample the food. Vietnamese cuisine has some of the freshest flavors and we see its influence across the U.S. in our own restaurants,” his Twitter …