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Three rangers have been hospitalized after being attacked by eight poachers during a raid in Cat Tien National Park in the southern Dong Nai Province. On early Thursday morning, a ranger team was inspecting Cat Tien National Park, which lies 160 kilometers northeast of Ho Chi Minh City. When reaching …

Viet Duc Hospital, the largest surgical center in northern Vietnam, has cut back on scheduled surgeries beginning Wednesday to save limited resources for emergency cases. The Hanoi hospital said on Feb. 24 that it only had one week of some medicines needed for treatment left, and only two weeks of …

Samantha Power, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), will travel to Vietnam next week to strenghthen partnership, the agency said in a statement. The visit comes as Vietnam and USAID have established years of engagement and cooperation in addressing the Vietnam War legacies. In Vietnam, Power is …

Vietnam’s newly elected President Vo Van Thuong on Thursday pledged to listen to the people and make their interests the focal point for policies. “Whichever is good for the people must be done to the best of our abilities; whichever is not must be avoided,” he said at the National …

A sunken Philippine tanker carrying 800,000 liters (210,000 gallons) of industrial fuel oil has leaked some of its cargo into the sea, authorities said Thursday, as they raced to find the vessel and contain the spill. The Princess Empress was travelling from Bataan province, near the capital Manila, to the …

The United States has approved the potential sale of $619 million in new weapons to Taiwan, including missiles for its F-16 fleet, as the island reported a second day of large-scale Chinese air force incursions nearby. The arms sales are likely to further sour already tense ties between Washington and …

Netflix’s video streaming services were down for thousands of users on Thursday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com. There were around 1,800 reports on Downdetector, which collates status reports from a number of sources. About 55% of the users reported issues with the website, according to Downdetector. Netflix did not immediately …

Vietnam’s newly elected President Vo Van Thuong on Thursday pledged to listen to the people and make their interests the focal point for policies. “Whichever is good for the people must be done to the best of our abilities; whichever is not must be avoided,” he said at the National …

The Communist Party’s Politburo said Vietnam must start work on the north-south expressway railway before 2030 so that it can be completed by 2045. The Party’s highest decision-making body said in a new conclusion that by 2025, related units must complete all procedures to approve the investment policy of the …

The Standing Committee of the legislative National Assembly (NA) introduced Vo Van Thuong, the standing member of the Communist Party’s Secretariat, as Vietnam’s presidential candidate. The assembly is holding an extraordinary meeting Thursday morning to elect the president, after the Communist Party’s Central Committee introduced a candidate the previous day. …