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Officers from the municipal police department and their colleagues in Binh Tan District arrested two employees of a karaoke bar for providing drugs to customers. A manager of the parlor, Nguyen Thi Thom, 32, and another employee named Bui Thi My Hanh, 22, were found providing 10 ecstasy pills and …

Lightning struck a hole through the hull of a Vietnam Airlines plane at Tan Son Nhat International Airport, sending two ground technicians to the hospital. The Vietnam Airlines A321 plane, which had just returned from Phu Quoc to Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat airport, got struck by lightning …

A total 20,000 people in central Vietnam’s Quang Ngai Province have been isolated after a landslide cut off a highway and buried generators at a hydropower plant Tuesday. Part of a hill got eroded, sending soil and rubble down the DT 622B highway section running through Tra Lam Commune of …

Chipmakers plunged in Asian trade Tuesday over new U.S. measures to limit China’s access to high-end semiconductors with military uses, a move that wiped billions from companies’ valuations worldwide. The announcement on Friday marked the latest volley in a long-running standoff between the two superpowers that has seen them face …

Around 15 million Vietnamese are afflicted with mental illnesses, with depression and anxiety taking the top spots, Deputy Health Minister Tran Van Thuan said. At a Monday meeting to commemorate World Mental Health Day (Oct. 10), Thuan said around 14.9% of the Vietnamese population suffer mental illnesses. Most people in …

The United States and other G7 powers will hold crisis talks Tuesday on Russia’s recent bombing blitz across Ukraine, with Britain’s Liz Truss expected to insist they “must not waver one iota” in their support for Kyiv. The meeting comes a day after Russian missiles rocked the Ukrainian capital for …

The owners of two karaoke parlors in the central Phu Yen Province have been arrested after police allegedly found customers there using drugs. Ngo Van Toan, 44, owner of Ron Rin karaoke bar, and Nguyen Thi Hong Tham, 39, owner of Bao Tram karaoke bar in Dong Hoa Town, are …

Small developing island states heavily exposed to the effects of climate change and often in critical debt situations spend at least 18 times more on debt servicing than they receive in climate finance, a report showed. A group of 37 island states, home to some 65 million people, “urgently need …

The Ministry of National Defense will hand over 16.05 hectares of land to HCMC this month to expand its airport. It will immediately transfer 14.7 ha and the rest before Oct. 30 for construction of the third terminal (T3) at Tan Son Nhat International Airport. The cost of the land …

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Monday ordered law enforcement agencies to tighten gun ownership rules and crack down on drug use following a mass killing by an ex-policeman at a daycare center that left has the nation in shock. A total of 36 people including 24 children were killed …