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A golfer who is a deputy of the Quang Nam Province’s legislature People’s Council had hit a female caddy with his club during a dispute. Nguyen Viet Dung, 44, also chairman of the management board of the Dat Quang Group company, went to a BRG gold course in Da Nang …

Of 168 parking plots Can Tho has planned only one is under construction, forcing drivers to struggle to find parking spaces for their vehicles. Nguyen Van Thanh, 45, took his wife and children on a road trip from Ho Chi Minh City to Can Tho City late last month. After …

Northern Vietnam is forecast to be hit by its strongest cold front this winter on Friday, when temperatures in mountainous areas are expected to drop below zero degrees Celsius. The temperature in Hanoi will be 13-19 degrees on Saturday and will fall to 8-17 degrees early next week, according to …

A woman was killed when a car slammed into her while she was crossing an expressway in northern Vietnam. The accident happened at around 3:15 p.m. on December 9 when the woman was crossing the Hanoi-Lao Cai Expressway, which connects the Vietnamese capital with the mountainous resort town Sa Pa. …

China has launched a trade dispute at the World Trade Organization against the United States over its chip export control measures, China’s commerce ministry said. The United States passed a sweeping set of regulations in October aimed at kneecapping China’s semiconductor industry, prompting a complaint from a top China trade …

Air monitoring indicates HCMC’s fine dust volume has exceeded safety thresholds and threatens to cause respiratory ailments. Monitoring by the city Department of Natural Resources and Environment found fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exceeding Vietnam’s prescribed safety limit of 50 µg/m3 for 24 hours and 25 µg/m3 over a year. The …

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court sentenced a beauty queen to seven years in jail Tuesday for stealing a Rolex watch worth VND2 billion (US$84,600) from her boyfriend. La Thi Anh, 32, who won the 2018 Miss Viet Nam Continents pageant in the U.S. while studying at the New …

China has launched a trade dispute at the World Trade Organization against the United States over its chip export control measures, China’s commerce ministry said. The United States passed a sweeping set of regulations in October aimed at kneecapping China’s semiconductor industry, prompting a complaint from a top China trade …

People in China celebrated the withdrawal on Tuesday of a state-mandated app used to track whether they had traveled to Covid-stricken areas, in the latest loosening of some of the world’s toughest anti-virus rules. China last week started axing key parts of its stringent “zero-Covid” regime. This has included dropping …

Temperatures in Saigon, normally one of the warmest places in Vietnam, dropped to around 20 degrees Celsius Tuesday morning, giving its residents an early Christmas chill. Several people could be spotted wearing coats and gloves on the streets. Some clasped and rubbed their hands together at the traffic lights; schoolchildren …