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A pair of Vietnamese deep-sea fishers have been confirmed missing after their fishing boat sank near South Korea this week, the foreign ministry announced. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs told VnExpress that two Vietnamese nationals are among the nine fishermen missing after their boat capsized off the coast of Sinan …

Police raided Poc Poc restaurant in HCMC on Sunday night as nearly 400 patrons, including almost 100 foreigners, danced, smoked hukkah and got high on laughing gas. All four hundred civilians present were hauled away in police vehicles. Twenty of them tested positive for having used illegal drugs. Poc Poc …

Police in the northern province of Bac Giang have detained a local man after finding 2,154 opium poppies in his house’s garden. Ngo Quang Tang, 61, who lives in Son Dong District, admitted to the police that he started growing those plants last November for his own use, Vietnam News …

More than 500 people were killed and thousands injured on Monday, after a major earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck central Turkey and northwest Syria, collapsing buildings and triggering searches for survivors in the rubble. The quake, which hit in the early darkness of a winter morning, was also felt in …

Indonesia’s economic growth climbed to its strongest in nine years last year fuelled by revived spending from the lifting of pandemic restrictions and as a global commodity boom sent exports to a record high. Southeast Asia’s largest economy gained from high global commodities prices in the aftermath of the Russia-Ukraine …

A major earthquake of magnitude 7.9 struck central Turkey and northwest Syria on Monday, killing about 200 people as buildings collapsed across the snowy region, and triggering a search for survivors trapped in rubble. The quake, which hit in the early darkness of a winter morning, was also felt in …

Ho Chi Minh City has asked the National Assembly to approve the construction of parking lots on empty land as the city currently lacks 900 ha (2,224 acres) of parking space. The suggestion has been sent to the Ministry of Planning and Investment for consideration, before being presented to the …

A Panama vessel carrying 4,530 cars from South Korea to Singapore caught fire and has been left drifting in the waters off Vung Tau. Fire engulfed the AH SHIN vessel as it was moving along Vietnam’s south-central coast on Sunday. The boat is currently drifting around 45 kilometers to the …

A Panama-flagged vessel carrying 4,530 cars from South Korea to Singapore caught fire and has been left drifting in the waters off Vung Tau in southern Vietnam. Fire engulfed the AH SHIN vessel as it was moving along Vietnam’s south-central coast on Sunday. The boat is currently drifting around 25 …

South Korea is searching for nine missing fishermen, possibly including two Vietnamese, after their boat capsized off the nation’s southwest coast. The Mokpo Coast Guard received a report at 11:19 p.m. local time on Saturday that a 24-ton fishing boat had overturned 16.6 kilometers west of Daebichido, an inhabited island …