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Nuclear-armed North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile farther than ever before on Tuesday, sending it soaring over Japan for the first time in five years. U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida spoke by phone and condemned the test in the “strongest terms,” calling it a danger …

Vietnam will this month impose temporary anti-dumping duty on some furniture products originating from China, the Ministry of Industry and Trade said. The tariff of between 21.4% and 35.2% will be in place for four months starting mid-October, the ministry said in a statement late on Monday. Table and chair …

Vietnam’s first monkeypox patient has tested negative for the virus after 12 days of treatment, director of the HCMC Hospital for Tropical Diseases said Tuesday. The 35-year-old woman no longer has fever and her blisters are beginning to heal, said Le Manh Hung, director of the hospital. “All close contacts …

Former Vietnamese diplomats in Japan and Malaysia were arrested Tuesday for their involvement in the Covid-19 repatriation flight bribery scandal. Nguyen Hong Ha, 58, of the Consulate General of Vietnam in Osaka, Japan, is to be investigated for accepting bribes, said spokesman for the Ministry of Public Security To An …

Scientists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for “experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science,” the award-giving body said on Tuesday. The more than century-old prize, worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($902,315), is awarded …

Australia will set aside at least 30% of its land mass for conservation in a bid to protect plants and animals in the island continent famed for species found nowhere else in the world, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek said on Tuesday. Australia has lost more mammal species than any other …

A teenager in central Vietnam’s Binh Thuan Province swallowed two bags of narcotics when questioned by police. Nguyen Ngoc Son, 17, is being investigated by police of Ham Tan District for “illegal storage of narcotic substances” after it was confirmed Tuesday the bags he swallowed contained drugs. Four days prior, …

Ben Tre Waste Treatment JSC in the southern eponymous province has been fined VND510 million ($21,300) and forced to suspend operations in 7.5 months for causing pollution. Ben Tre’s administration made the decision Tuesday after the company in Chau Thanh District failed to address pollution at its waste treatment plant. …

Twenty five people have died of dengue fever in HCMC this year, the highest number in the last decade. “The dengue outbreak shows no sign of easing up, and could worsen,” director of the city Department of Health, Tang Chi Thuong, said Monday. The number of severe cases this year …

Elite Indonesian police officers were under investigation Tuesday over a stadium stampede that killed 125 people including dozens of children in one of the deadliest disasters in football history. As public anger grew over the tragedy, police moved to punish those responsible for the crush in the city of Malang …