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A train on the Cat Linh–Ha Dong metro line in Hanoi had to stop along its route on Saturday morning, forcing around 300 passengers to be transferred to public buses to complete their journey. The train stopped at around 10 a.m. after going through eight of the line’s 12 stations, …

A Mercedes Benz was on fire while driving on a Hanoi street Saturday morning, but the people inside the vehicle escaped unhurt. The front seats of the car car caught on fire while it was passing Pham Hung St. in Cau Giay District at 6:30 a.m. A driver and a …

A large troop of around 200 macaques has been terrorizing people in Ninh Hoa Town in the central province of Khanh Hoa for days, scavenging for food and raiding households. Bui Thi Thuy Lien, chairwoman of the Ninh Ich Commune People’s Committee, said Friday the animals have been wreaking havoc …

A domesticated elephant that had been bought by the Dak Lak conservation center last month and treated for injuries died on Thursday. Rok, a 34-year-old male, had been raised by a family in the Central Highlands. When the center in Dak Lak Province’s Buon Don District acquired it for VND500 …

A U.S. F-22 fighter jet on Friday shot down an unidentified object flying over Alaska, U.S. officials said, less than a week after the military brought down a Chinese balloon that had flown across the United States. A Sidewinder missile downed the object, which was about the size of a …

India will drop the pre-departure Covid test requirement for travellers coming from or via China, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand and Japan from Monday, the health ministry said. The move comes as Covid infections have fallen sharply globally. The random testing of 2% of all travellers landing in India …

Heavy snow across much of Japan on Friday grounded 100 flights, blocked dozens of roads and disrupted train services, government authorities and operators said. Domestic airlines including ANA, Japan Airlines and others cancelled a total of 100 flights due to the snow as of noon, according to the land ministry. …

Vietnam military has dispatched 76 soldiers to Turkey to aid with rescue efforts following deadly earthquakes in the Turkey-Syria region that have killed at least 21,000. Deputy Minister of National Defense Nguyen Tan Cuong on Friday asked the Department of Rescue and Disaster Relief to cooperate with relevant entities to …

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his wife arrived in Brunei Friday for an official two-day visit in promotion of bilateral relations between the two countries. This is the first visit to Brunei Chinh has made as Prime Minister, as well as the first official visit of a Vietnamese PM …

Telecommunication firms on Friday guaranteed that Vietnam’s international Internet connections would no longer be “stagnated” starting Friday night. At a meeting on the same day between the Ministry of Information and Communications and telecom firms regarding issues with Vietnam’s subsea cables, Internet service providers said they would utilize different methods …