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The average English score during the 2024 national high school graduation examination was the lowest among all the tested subjects, at 5.51 out of 10. Among the 906,500 candidates participating in the English exam, 565 had a perfect score of 10. 145 of them, however, scored below 1. Around 43% …

South Korea’s Supreme Court recognized new rights for same-sex couples Thursday, saying the state must provide health insurance for a gay man’s partner in a landmark ruling that left activists weeping for joy. The country’s highest court ruled it was “discrimination” for state health insurers to treat same-sex couples differently …

Students in Ho Chi Minh City had an average English score of 6.73 out of 10 for this year’s high-school graduation exam, a slight decrease compared to last year but still leading the country, while Hanoi dropped in the ranking. With this result, the city leads the national rankings for …

The Politburo has assigned President To Lam to manage the workload of the Party Central Committee, the Politburo and the Secretariat while Party Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong focuses on his health treatment. Per a request by the Professional Council for Health Protection of Central Officials, Trong has been working and …

Two former police officers in the central Ha Tinh Province have been sentenced to 15 and 18 years in prison each for trading over 193 grams of drugs. The Ha Tinh Provincial People’s Court sentenced Phan Xuan Hai, 33, former officer of the Drug and Economic Crime Investigation Department under …

Personal data is being sold in an organized manner, even with continual updates, the public security ministry said. Nguyen Minh Chinh, head of the Department of Cybersecurity and Crime Prevention using High Technology, said personal data had been on sale online for a long time on websites, social media and …

The elevated section of the Nhon-Hanoi Station metro line is expected to enter operation at the end of this month, now that fire safety evaluation and personnel training have been completed. Duong Duc Tuan, vice chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee, on Wednesday said Hanoi had already operated the elevated …

A trial opened in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday involving two former heads of the Vietnam Register and 252 others, facing multiple charges including bribery and neglect, which enabled violations in vehicle registration procedures. This trial, the largest in Vietnam’s history, is scheduled to last three months. The widespread …

The Thai police said that the Vietnamese-American suspect in the poisoning deaths of six people, including herself, in Bangkok had been sued by the other five in Japan. On Wednesday they identified her as Sherine Chong, 56. The other five were Dang Hung Van, 55, also carried a Vietnamese-American passport, …

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to closely coordinate with the Thai side in investigation and citizen protection after the deaths of four Vietnamese nationals in a hotel in Bangkok. In an official dispatch sent to the foreign ministry, the Ministry of Public Security, …