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North Korea fired a long-range ballistic missile into the sea between the Korean peninsula and Japan hours before South Korea’s president was due to fly to Tokyo for a summit expected to discuss ways to counter the nuclear-armed North. North Korea has conducted multiple missile launches this week amid ongoing …

Washington’s top general said the crash of a U.S. surveillance drone after being intercepted by Russian jets showed Moscow’s increasingly aggressive behavior, while Russia warned Washington that flying drones near Crimea risked escalation. A day after the U.S.dronewent down over the Black Sea, defense ministers and military chiefs from the …

Scammers are tricking people in Hanoi into sending them money by telling them their children are hospitalized and require surgery. Dao Thi Cuc, deputy headmistress of the Nguyen Truong To secondary school in Hanoi’s Dong Da District, said Tuesday the parents of a ninth grader received a call saying their …

Medical facilities may negotiate the prices of certain drugs and products during the contractor bidding process, according to a draft amendment to the Law on Procurement. Finance-Budget Commission head Nguyen Phu Cuong said on Wednesday that the draft amendment on the Law on Procurement would allow medical facilities to negotiate …

A landfill with hundreds of thousands of tons of trash in Da Lat has been burning since Saturday last week, sending smokes and stench towards nearby neighborhoods. Columns of smokes, dozens of meters tall, could be seen from afar from the Cam Ly landfill in Ward 5, which spans 12 …

A man in Da Nang was murdered by a neighbor for singing karaoke on a mobile loudspeaker at night. Tran Van Thang, 32, died after being stabbed in the neck by Le Cong Binh, 31, on Monday night, Da Nang police said Tuesday. At around 8 p.m. Monday, Thang and …

Bulging grey heads break the turbid waters of the Mekong River in Cambodia as a pod of rare Irrawaddy dolphins surfaces to breathe, drawing excited murmurs from tourists watching from nearby boats. The thrilling sight may soon be no more than a memory, as numbers of the endangered mammals dwindle …

HCMC has pulled the plug on a proposed commercial complex to replace the Ma Lang area since it is unable to get the site for it. The decision was made recently by the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee’s Party unit. Ma Lang is a 6.8-hectare (16.8-acre) area in District …

South Korea’s largest music label HYBE which manages hit boy band BTS, will announce a “substantial number of acquisitions and investments” this year as the K-pop giant looks to boost its U.S. presence, its chairman said on Wednesday. The company’s efforts to expand its portfolio of music labels and fan …

Seven BIDV executives are on trial in Hanoi for lending US$39 million to a Taiwanese company allegedly in violation of norms, causing huge losses to the state-owned bank. They include Do Quoc Hung, formerly director of the lender’s Thanh Do, Hanoi branch, and six managers, who are accused of approving …