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Rescuers and residents sifted through rubble Saturday as their focus turned to recovering bodies and cleaning up rather than finding survivors, five days after a huge earthquake struck central Japan and killed at least 126 people. The death toll from the New Year’s Day 7.5 magnitude quake in the Ishikawa …

Several domestic flights are now over 90% booked as the Lunar New Year (Tet) approaches, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam said Saturday. A representative of the authority said several flights from Hanoi and HCMC to other domestic locations have high booking rates on the days leading to the Lunar …

A man in central Quang Ngai Province was arrested for murdering six people, 43 years after claiming their lives. Phan Thanh Viet, 71, was arrested in Ca Mau in southern Vietnam Saturday by the police of Quang Ngai to be investigated for murder and robbery. An investigator said that Viet’s …

Standing trial for giving bribes to sell Covid test kits at inflated prices, a businessman told the court Friday he had helped Vietnam become one of the first countries to have its own test kits. Phan Quoc Viet, CEO and chairman of the Viet A company, was accused of committing …

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent documents to the Vietnamese Embassy in Myanmar to verify the origin of the object claimed as “Buddha hair sarira” displayed at a Vietnam pagoda. A representative of the Department of Southeast Asian-South Asian-South Pacific Affairs under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday …

A HCMC court sentenced local man Nguyen Liao Hung Tran, 30, to death for having 5.8 kg of drugs delivered to him from Germany by mail. He was sentenced for transportation and illegal possession of drugs. Tran was at home in District 4 on the afternoon of May 13, 2022, …

Lao Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone and his spouse arrived in Hanoi Saturday, beginning a two-day official visit to Vietnam upon the invitation of his counterpart Pham Minh Chinh. Sonexay Siphandone was received by Chinh at a welcome ceremony and then held talks with the Vietnamese PM. They will co-chair the …

A man who drove a Mercedes car at 210 kph on a new Mekong Delta expressway and made a TikTok video of it has been fined VND22 million (US$900). The 37-year-old man who lives in the delta’s An Giang Province was fined for speeding but also driving with an expired …

The highest salary paid out in Hanoi last year was VND125 million ($5,129), according to statistics from the Hanoi labor department. That’s over $60,000 a year, compared to the national average Vietnamese earnings of $2,300, according to the General Statistics Office data of 2022. A report by the Hanoi Department …

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear Donald Trump’s appeal of a judicial decision barring the former president from Colorado’s Republican primary ballot, taking up a politically explosive case with major implications for the 2024 presidential election. Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign …