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Former director of the Vietnam Register Tran Ky Hinh was arrested in Ho Chi Minh City Tuesday following accusations of accepting bribes from several vehicle registration centers when he was in office. The arrest of Hinh, 62, is the latest development of an ongoing investigation into vehicle registration centers across …

The Central Party Committee on Tuesday agreed to let Nguyen Xuan Phuc stop serving as Vietnam’s president, as well as a member of the Politburo and the committee upon his personal request. According to a statement released from an extraordinary meeting of the committee, Phuc was a key leader of …

China’s economic growth in 2022 slumped to one of its worst in nearly half a century as the fourth quarter was hit hard by stringent Covid curbs and a property market slump, raising pressure on policymakers to unveil more stimulus this year. Gross domestic product (GDP) grew 2.9% in October-December …

Traffic accidents in Vietnam have dropped since the launch of a campaign to ensure safety and and order for the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday and other major events. According to the Traffic Police Department under the Ministry of Public Security, 1,854 traffic accidents occurred nationwide from November 15, 2022 …

Workers losing their jobs between October last year and March 2023 will receive a stipend of VND1-3 million (US$42.66-128) from the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor. The confederation said Monday tens of thousands of workers have been laid off or furloughed across Vietnam’s manufacturing hubs due to a shortage of …

U.S. and European airlines will benefit from pent-up demand for travel to China after its recent border reopening, but route approvals, fresh Covid-19 testing rules and not enough large aircraft remain barriers to rising sales, analysts and industry officials say. Travel is returning to China, the world’s largest outbound tourism …

China’s population fell last year for the first time since 1961, a historic turn that is expected to mark the start of a long period of decline in its citizen numbers and see India become the world’s most populous nation in 2023. The country had 1.41175 billion people at the …

Six people, including a 17-year-old mother and a six-month old baby, were killed in a shooting at a home in Goshen, California, on Monday, authorities said, describing the attack as targeted and calling it a “horrific massacre.” Six victims were shot dead at the 6800 Block of Harvest Road, Tulare …

Seventeen days after a 10-year-old boy fell into a 35-meter-deep concrete pillar in southern Vietnam, where he was trapped and died, rescue workers have managed to pull the pillar up by just 12m. Rescuers are pulling the concrete pillar up section by section. Nam and three other children who are …

An Indonesian court on Monday began a trial of a handful of police officers and soccer match organizers on charges of criminal negligence for their role in one of the world’s deadliest soccer stadium stampedes in Java last October. The disaster, in which 135 people died, occurred after a match …