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China on Friday named former navy commander Dong Jun as its new defense minister, state media said, filling a vacancy created by the surprise removal of Li Shangfu in October. China’s new defense minister Dong Jun. Photo by the People’s Liberation Army Dong was appointed at a meeting of the …

Heightened year-end travel and shopping demands, along with ongoing construction, have been jamming traffic at several entrances to HCMC’s Tan Son Nhat Airport. Over the past few days, vehicles have been getting stuck on the roads leading towards the entrance of the airport in Tan Binh District, even when it’s …

It was a robust year for external affairs activities in Vietnam as the country received 21 high-ranking foreign leaders in 2023, according to the foreign ministry. In an article issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday, foreign minister Bui Thanh Son said Vietnam’s external affairs activities over 2023, …

HCMC’s highest Tet bonus this year is VND2.078 billion ($85,602), with the lowest amount at VND4.8 million. Nguyen Bao Cuong, head of the labor-wage-social insurance division under the HCMC Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, said at a Friday conference the numbers were tallied from 1,300 businesses, with over …

A court in Hanoi on Friday sentenced a former police lieutenant who kidnapped a boy for a US$627,000 ransom to 20 years in prison. Nguyen Duc Trung, 31, worked in the advisory team of the Traffic Police Department of Vinh Phu Province that borders Hanoi at the time of committing …

Nearly 10 tons of endangered animal parts from Africa, including ivory and rhino horns that were seized from a smuggler in Da Nang City, have been incinerated. A court in the central city ruled Thursday to burn 456.9 kg of elephant tusks, 140 kg of rhino horns, 6.2 tons of …

Ho Chi Minh City police have arrested a South Korean man who is member of an illegal gambling organization and was on the run in the city. Kim Jeehoon, 35, was arrested Thursday for “organizing gambling,” as per a warrant by Interpol. According to Interpol, Kim is a website administrator …

All Boeing 737 MAX jets operated by Chinese carriers are back in service at the end of 2023, the U.S. planemaker’s China head said on Friday, nearly a year after they started returning following a global grounding in 2019. The best-selling Boeing model was grounded after fatal crashes in Indonesia …

Year-end holidaymakers across China were bracing for possible transport disruptions after the weather bureau on Friday warned that heavy fog and haze would shroud areas from Hebei province in the north to southern Shanghai for more than 24 hours. The Central Meteorological Observatory issued its first red alert for fog …

Chinese tech giant Huawei said Friday it “weathered the storm” of U.S. sanctions as it announced a rise of almost 9% in revenues in 2023, a year that saw it shock Washington with the release of a high-end smartphone. The Shenzhen-based giant has been at the center of an intense …