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A multimedia installation exhibition is now open in Ho Chi Minh City telling the story of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as they created life in Australia. The “Walking through a Songline” installation, sponsored by the Australian government, “invites visitors to enter a space of immersive light projections, …

Mountainous Son La Province recorded a temperature of 38 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, the highest recorded this year as the heat envelops northern regions. Due to the impact of a powerful low-pressure area, weather stations in Son La recorded temperatures of around 38 degrees, while those in Hoa Binh Province …

Tran Tien, director of Phi Truong Tourism Service Trading, was arrested Tuesday for giving bribes regarding to the repatriation of Vietnamese living overseas during the Covid outbreak. Tien’s detention has raised the number of people under investigation to 51 in the bribery scandal surrounding flights to bring home stranded Vietnamese …

Twenty-two people in the northern Vinh Phuc Province were caught playing poker in a 5-star hotel on Monday, with VND1 billion ($42,517) seized during the raid. The police arrested the people in a hotel in Vinh Yen Town, and took them to the police headquarters to be investigated for gambling …

TikTok’s chief executive will tell lawmakers the Chinese-owned short video app with more than 150 million American users has never, and would never, share U.S. user data with the Chinese government amid growing U.S. national security concerns. “TikTok has never shared, or received a request to share, U.S. user data …

A family in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 4 that has 82 dogs as pets has been fined VND64 million (US$2,700) for causing “environmental pollution.” Ward 9 authorities said they made the decision to fine the family living on Hoang Dieu Street for discharging 10 times the permitted level of …

Workers at a waste treatment plant in Binh Thuan Province dug through 20 tons of trash to salvage 24 grams of gold that had been mistakenly thrown away with garbage. Le Dinh Yen, deputy director of the Phu Quy waste treatment factory in the central province, said on Tuesday rings …

Taiwan’s leader will visit diplomatic allies Guatemala and Belize next week while also making stopovers in the United States, the island’s foreign ministry said Tuesday, as it aims to shore up ties in Latin America. Tsai Ing-wen will depart Taiwan on March 29 for the 10-day trip, stopping in New …

The leaders of China and Russia hailed a “new era” in their relationship on Tuesday, putting on a united front in Moscow as Vladimir Putin accused the West of rejecting Beijing’s proposals to end the Ukraine conflict. The nations, eager to curb Western power, expressed concerns about NATO expansion in …

A leaking fuel tanker that sank off the central Philippines three weeks ago has been found using an underwater robot from Japan, a provincial governor said on Tuesday, as authorities sought more foreign help to address the oil spill. The discovery of MT Princess Empress, which was carrying about 800,000 …