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Laos will hold a state funeral on Thursday and Friday in memorial of late Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, who died on Friday last week. Bouakhong Nammavong, head of the office of Lao Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone, said at a press meet that the Lao Party and government …

A private investor has begun working on a factory to convert waste materials into usable forms of energy for Ho Chi Minh City in the outlying district of Cu Chi. HCMC-based BCG Energy, under Bamboo Capital Group, broke ground for the first phase of Tam Sinh Nghia factory on Saturday. …

Northern Hai Phong and Quang Ninh, home to famous bays and islands, stopped giving permits for tourist ships to stay overnight at sea starting Monday noon to avoid impacts from storm Prapiroon. The Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention, Search, Rescue and Civil Defense in Hai Phong, home to Lan …

Storm Prapiroon crossed Hainan Island off southern China early Monday and is heading towards Vietnam’s northern Quang Ninh Province, home of Ha Long Bay, with wind speed of 88 kph. According to the National Center for Hydro – Meteorological Forecasting, it lay centered at Hainan at 7 a.m. Monday and …

U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision Sunday to withdraw from the presidential race at such a late date — just over 100 days until the November 5 election — is unprecedented in modern U.S. electoral history. In the coming days, Biden’s fellow Democrats “will undertake a transparent and orderly process to …

Donald Trump boasted on Sunday he would easily defeat Kamala Harris if she becomes the Democratic nominee in the Nov. 5 presidential election, but her entry would reshape a race that had appeared to be going Trump’s way. Democratic President Joe Biden’s sudden decision to exit the race and endorse …

After Joe Biden announced his exit from the US presidential election race on Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris is gearing up to win the Democratic nomination for the November election. Harris aims to secure a historic victory by defeating Donald Trump. However, the Democratic Party faces a significant gamble, as …

A pram carrying twin two-year-old girls rolled into the path of an oncoming train in Sydney on Sunday, police said, in an accident that killed one of the children and the “heroic” father who dashed to their rescue. One of the little girls survived only “through good luck” after she …

Storm Prapiroon passed through Hainan Island off China on Monday morning and is heading towards Vietnam’s northern Quang Ninh Province, home of Ha Long Bay, with wind speed of 88 kph. According to the National Center for Hydro – Meteorological Forecasting, the storm lay on Hainan at 7 a.m. Monday …

U.S. President Joe Biden abandoned his floundering reelection bid on Sunday under growing pressure from his fellow Democrats and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him as the party’s candidate to face Republican Donald Trump in the November election. Biden, who at 81 is the oldest person ever to …