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A Lao man was arrested by police of central Ha Tinh Province and their colleagues in neighboring Laos for transporting 209 kg of drugs from Laos to the Vietnamese border. Vu Mua Vu, 20, was driving a car on July 21 when he was stopped by police in Laos’s Bolikhamsai …

A HCMC court ruling rejecting a British manager’s claim for VND6 billion($255,000) in damages against cinema group CJ CGV Vietnam for “wrongful termination” has been overturned by the appellate court. The High People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday accepted Benedict Daniel Sullivan’s appeal, nullifying the initial verdict …

A Japanese man has graduated with a master’s degree in Vietnamese Studies at the Vietnam-Japan University, becoming the first foreign student to complete the program entirely in Vietnamese. Kato Mitsuru, aged 63, was one of the 36 postgraduate students to graduate this term, receiving his degree on July 21 at …

A Frenchman and a New Zealander in HCMC are to be deported for painting graffiti on a local house, police of District 1 said. The foreigners, aged 24 and 28, have also been fined VND25 million ($990) for unauthorized activities, the police said. On July 22, as a police team …

A fire raging out of control in northern California has rapidly become among the biggest ever in the western US state, authorities said Saturday. The so-called Park Fire had burned almost 350,000 acres (142,000 hectares) as of late Saturday morning, making it the seventh-largest ever recorded in California history, the …

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday acknowledged the uphill climb to defeating Donald Trump in November, but said her freshly minted presidential campaign would prevail over the “wild lies” of her Republican rival. As Trump addressed a bitcoin conference in Tennessee, Harris was speaking at a fundraising event in …

A vehicle crashed into pedestrians in a major city in central China early on Saturday, killing eight people and injuring five, authorities said, without specifying whether the act was intentional or not. The incident took place shortly after midnight in Changsha, capital of Hunan province, police said in a statement. …

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken offered incense in tribute to Vietnam’s Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and extended condolences to his family at their home in Hanoi Saturday evening. Blinken, along with a U.S. delegation sent by President Joe Biden, conveyed Biden’s condolences to the late leader’s wife …

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A network of mines on a Japanese island infamous for using conscripted wartime labor was added to UNESCO’s World Heritage register Saturday after South Korea dropped earlier objections to its listing. The Sado gold and silver mines, now a popular tourist attraction, are believed to have started operating as early …