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Colleagues and family members of legendary poet and translator Duong Tuong, who translated works like “Gone with the Wind” and “Kafka on the Shore” into Vietnamese, attended his funeral on Wednesday. Tuong, who died on Feb. 24 at 91, had spent the last three months of his life at the …

A U.S. veteran who has kept a Vietnam War notebook for over 50 years would return it this weekend to the family of its owner, a Vietnamese martyr in the central province of Ha Tinh. U.S. veteran Peter Mathews is expected to come to Ha Tinh’s Ky Anh District on …

The Communist Party’s 13th Central Committee introduced a presidential candidate at an extraordinary meeting Wednesday. The National Assembly will hold a meeting later to formally elect the president for the 2021-2026 term. According to Vietnamese Constitution 2013, the president is head of state, representing the country in internal and external …

Ho Chi Minh City Forest Protection Department has received a pangolin found on the roof of a parking house in the city’s downtown. The pangolin was detected Tuesday by Bui Kim Hoang, 61, who works at the parking lot in District 1’s Da Kao Ward. Hoang said he saw the …

FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Tuesday the agency has assessed that a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, likely caused the Covid-19 pandemic. “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan,” Wray …

Twenty-six people were killed and at least 85 injured after two trains collided head-on in Greece late on Tuesday, the fire brigade said, while the circumstances of the crash remained unclear. A passenger train traveling from Athens to the northern city of Thessaloniki collided with cargo train outside the city …

Vietnam’s industrial output and exports rose in February from a year earlier, partly helped by higher footwear sales, in a possible sign of recovering global demand for goods produced in the Southeast Asian industrial powerhouse. But indicating the caution among factory managers amid an uncertain global outlook, production of smartphones …

The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said on Tuesday he opposes a Republican bill that would give President Joe Biden the power to ban Chinese-owned social media app TikTok and other apps. The committee opened debate on Tuesday on the measure that Republican committee chair Michael McCaul …

For Zoey Zhang, a student from China who is heading to a top Australian university, finding accommodation Down Under has been tough – so much so that she has even considered sleeping “rough on the streets”. Like Zhang, around 700,000 students from China enrolled to study overseas have been left …

A woman has been placed on house arrest for facilitating illegal emigration to Canada by selling tourist visas to workers for up to $27,000 each, Da Nang police said Tuesday. Nguyen Thi Tuong Vi, 42, who lives in Thua Thien-Hue, has been prohibited from leaving her place of residence while …