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The man who made the first attempt to get the 10-year-old boy out of the 35-meter-deep bridge pillar in southern Vietnam last week is still haunted by the tragedy. “It’s been a week now and every time I go to the site I hear him screaming for help in my …

Police of Hanoi found 98 kg of drugs hidden in boxes transported from Germany to Vietnam. Three suspects have been arrested so far and have been handed over to police in Ho Chi Minh City for further investigation, Hanoi police said Friday, according to a Tuoi Tre newspaper report. Customs …

A hacker in Ho Chi Minh City was sentenced to 10 years in jail for stealing around VND300 million ($12,782) from the owner of a cryptocurrency exchange platform. Nham Hoang Khang was charged with extortion and forced to return the money he stole, the HCMC People’s Court sentenced Friday. In …

Vietnamese airlines will resume regular flights to China Sunday for the first time since the Covid-19 lockdown. Vietnam Airlines plans to resume all flights between Hanoi and Nanjing and Shanghai, as well as between HCMC and five other major Chinese airports: Shenzen, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Sichuan and Guangzhou. There will be …

More countries around the world are demanding that visitors from China take Covid tests, days before it drops border controls and ushers in an eagerly awaited return to travel. From Sunday, China will end the requirement for inbound travelers to quarantine, the latest dismantling of its “zero-Covid” regime that began …

The Vietnamese and Cambodian police have closed four critical cases and detained two dangerous criminals at the head of multiple drug trafficking rings across the border. According to a report presented at the third conference between the police forces of Vietnam and Cambodia against narcotic crimes, the two countries’ collaboration …

Objects inside a house in Thanh Hoa Province have been spontaneously combusting over the past few months, forcing the family to be evacuated. Dinh Xuan Nam, 35, and five other members of his family are currently staying at a kindergarten in Ha Linh Commune, Ha Nam District in the north …

More than 200 documents, photos and objects featuring negotiations for the signing of the Paris Peace Accords 50 years ago are being displayed in Hanoi. The exhibition, opened on January 5, is held by the National Archives Center III under the Ministry of Home Affairs’ State Records and Archives Department. …

A group of Japanese experts has arrived in southern Dong Thap Province to help pull up a 35-m-deep pillar with the body of a dead boy inside. The experts have developed a plan to extricate the hollow pillar, which has a diameter of 25cm and is buried underground at the …

A massive Pacific storm unleashed high winds, torrential rains and heavy snow across California for a second day on Thursday, knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes and threatening much of the state with flash flooding and mudslides. At least two fatalities have been reported since Wednesday. The …