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Jollibee Foods Corp, the biggest fast-food operator in the Philippines, is in advanced discussions to sell a minority stake in its Vietnamese coffee chain Highlands Coffee, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Jollibee, controlled by Philippine billionaire Tony Tan Caktiong, is considering a sale that could value …

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and South Korea’s Speaker of the National Assembly Kim Jin-pyo on Tuesday agreed to bolster defense industry cooperation and technological transference between the two countries. Both leaders highly regarded Vietnam and South Korea’s cooperation regarding defense and security, especially South Korea’s support to enhance the capabilities …

Five people in southern An Giang Province were arrested Tuesday after tricking a person into selling a fake meteorite for them for VND5 trillion ($208.3 million). Nguyen Trung Hieu, 41, Tran Van Nghia, 60, and Le Vang Tung, Le Van Chi and Au Thi Xuan, all 56, were detained by …

A 25-year-old woman died after receiving anesthesia for a liposuction at a HCMC beauty center. An inspector for the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health on Tuesday said the woman came to the Key Beauty Center facility in Phu Nhuan District for a liposuction on November 26. After receiving …

Vietnam’s Internet connection with other countries and territories is being impacted due to issues with the Asia Africa Europe 1 (AAE-1) undersea cable. A representative of an ISP said a shunt fault at the S1H cable section caused all the data on the AAE-1 line to be lost since the …

The climate policies of most wealthy countries and many high-emitting emerging economies are in line with global heating far beyond the safer 1.5 degree Celsius limit reaffirmed at UN climate talks last month, a new analysis found Tuesday. Even after countries raised their ambitions to cut emissions of greenhouse gases …

A dozen homes and adjacent fruit farms and fishponds were swept away into a river in Vinh Long Province recently, which is just another episode of destructive erosion in the Mekong Delta. Erosion swallowed up much of the banks of the Chien River on Monday afternoon, and there is no …

Three people died and four others were wounded after a bomb exploded on a roadside in Thailand’s troubled deep south, police said Tuesday. The seven state railway employees were on their way to fix a section of track in Songkhla province, near the Malaysian border, which had been damaged in …

A dozen homes and adjacent fruit farms and fishponds were swept away by erosion in the southern province of Vinh Long recently. Erosion swallowed up much of the banks of the Chien River on Monday afternoon, and there is no sign that it will stop soon, said chairman of the …

20 plastic bags containing ketamine were washed onto the Sa Huynh beach of central Quang Ngai Province. Locals of Vinh Tuy Village found the bags on Monday afternoon and informed authorities. Border guards of Sa Huynh then discovered white crystals inside the bags. Tests on the spot revealed the white …