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Vietnam and South Korea have elevated their bilateral relationship to that of a comprehensive strategic partnership, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc said Monday. “With an eye on a bright future, we’ve decided to upgrade our relationship to that of a comprehensive strategic partnership,” Phuc said at a press conference in Seoul …

A 14-year-old boy in the northern province of Hai Duong was severely injured after a mobile phone exploded in his left hand, doctors at a Hanoi hospital said Monday. The patient was transferred to the Military Hospital 108 in Hanoi with grievous injuries to his left hand that exposed his …

Apple has added the Paracel and the Spratly archipelagos into its Apple Maps application following a request by Vietnamese authorities. Le Quang Tu Do, head of the Authority of Broadcasting and Electronic Information, said Monday that he has received Apple’s response regarding the addition of Vietnam’s Paracel and Spratly islands …

The Nhon-Hanoi Station metro line began its trial run on Monday, according to the Hanoi Metropolitan Railway Management Board. The trial run will be conducted in two phases, with the first phase lasting from five days to six weeks in order to evaluate the line’s RAM efficiency. During the first …

Indonesia’s central bank (BI) governor Perry Warjiyo said on Monday its planned digital rupiah currency can be used in the future to buy products in the metaverse. BI launched the designfor its digital rupiah last week, following many central banks around the world that are developing so-called central bank digital …

The New Zealand government said it will introduce a law that will require big online digital companies such as Alphabet Inc’s Google and Meta Platforms Inc to pay New Zealand media companies for the local news content that appears on their feeds. Minister of Broadcasting Willie Jackson said in a …

Apple supplier Foxconn expects its Covid-hit Zhengzhou plant in China to resume full production around late December to early January, a Foxconn source said on Monday. Production of the Apple device was disrupted ahead of Christmas and January’s Lunar New Year holidays, with many workers either having to isolate to …

A Group of Seven (G7) price cap on Russian seaborne oil came into force on Monday as the West tries to limit Moscow’s ability to finance its war in Ukraine, though Russia has said it will not abide by the measure even if it has to cut production. The G7 …

One man’s body was found on a beach in Hoi An and another six km away on Monday morning. People of Hoi An’s Cam An Ward of the central Quang Nam Province saw a decomposing body of a man swept onto the beach. The man was wearing a T-shirt and …

Yen Bai Province in Vietnam’s northern highlands has asked for permission to use its existing military airport for civil aviation also. The airport is targeted to receive 800,000 to one million passengers per year, the province said in a recent proposal to the Ministry of Transport. It suggested the ministry …