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A Vietnam Airlines plane flying from Germany to HCMC had to stop halfway in Azerbaijan as a German man on board got sick. The passenger, 18, encountered some health issue and received emergency care from a doctor and a nurse who were also passengers on the flight, yet his condition …

The Biden administration plans to spare SK Hynix and Samsung from the brunt of new restrictions on memory chipmakers in China aimed at thwarting Beijing’s technological ambitions and blocking its military advances, sources said. The Commerce Department, which plans to release new curbs on exports of technology to China this …

The 12 aircraft revetments built by the U.S. in HCMC’s Tan Son Nhat airport for use during the Vietnam War (1955-1975) are being dismantled. The Air and Air Defense Force is in charge of the task. Revetments are a parking area for one or more aircraft surrounded by blast walls …

Malaysian research student Haziq Ramli wore an outfit resembling a light jetpack, with poles strapped to his biceps, to wield a long pole that clipped the sharp fronds and heavy bunches of fruit from oil palm trees nearly twice his height. Working on a three-acre (1.2-hectare) family estate, he was …

Japan’s foreign reserves fell by a record to $1.238 trillion at the end of September as a result of the government’s dollar-selling intervention during the month to arrest a sharp decline in the yen, Ministry of Finance data showed on Friday. The amount compared with $1.409 trillion seen a year …

The Ministry of Transport has proposed upgrading six commercial airports across Vietnam under the public-private partnership (PPP) format. In a report submitted to the government recently, the ministry said the Na San Airport in the northern province of Son La; the Vinh, Chu Lai and Tho Xuan airports in the …

A 5-seat car in Nha Trang beach town in central Vietnam rammed into four other cars parked on Pasteur Street Tuesday night, sending one on top of another. Three other cars were also impacted by the collision. There were no casualties. Police are trying to identify the driver and assess …

French author Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for “the courage and clinical acuity” in her largely autobiographical books examining personal memory and social inequality. In explaining its choice, the Swedish Academy said Ernaux, 82, “consistently and from different angles, examines a life marked by …

Thirteen Vietnamese citizens in the Philippines have been freed after being rescued from local human trafficking rings, the foreign affairs ministry said Thursday. Filipino police said September 27 they found 24 human trafficking victims, 14 Vietnamese and 10 Chinese women, following tipoffs about the victims being imprisoned inside three apartment …

Police in the southern Dong Nai Province have arrested the owner of a karaoke after a raid there found customers and staff using drugs. Ha Le Hong Phuc, 40, who owns Luxury Hong Phuc karaoke in Trang Bom District, is being investigated for “accommodating the illegal use of narcotics.” The …