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All 79 villas found to be built illegally on public lands in Phu Quoc Island off the southern Kien Giang Province are set to be demolished. Kien Giang vice chairman Le Quoc Anh said Monday procedures are being completed for the demolition. The villas, all of them in Duong To …

Ukrainian forces have broken through Russia’s defenses in the south of the country while expanding their rapid offensive in the east, seizing back more territory in areas annexed by Moscow and threatening supply lines for Russian troops. Making their biggest breakthrough in the south since the war began, Ukrainian forces …

The number of issued one-way flight tickets from Russia increased 27% the week President Vladimir Putin declared on Sept. 21 the country’s first mobilization since World War Two, according to flight ticketing data from Spain-based ForwardKeys on Tuesday. The mobilization of men to fight in Ukraine has prompted thousands of …

Nuclear-armed North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years on Tuesday, prompting a warning for residents to take cover and a temporary suspension of train operations in northern Japan. The Japanese government warned citizens to take cover as the missile appeared to have …

Cheap labor has been Vietnam’s competitive edge for years, but it has come at the expense of workers’ sustainable wellbeing. They neither have job stability nor an adequate safety net. Four years ago, 30-year-old Ly Mi Vang traveled 2,000 km from the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang to the …

Former HCMC Chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong and two other high-ranking officials have been dismissed from the Party Central Committee for various violations and shortcomings that had ‘serious consequences.’ The 13th Party Central Committee voted to dismiss the senior officials at its sixth plenum that opened Monday. Apart from Nguyen Thanh …

Former HCMC Chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong and two other high-ranking officials have been dismissed from the Party Central Committee. At the sixth plenum 13th Central Committee of Vietnam’s Communist Party morning, the committee voted and agreed that three members – Nguyen Thanh Phong, Bui Nhat Quang, President of the Vietnam …

A 35-year-old woman has become Vietnam’s patient zero of monkeypox after returning to HCMC from Dubai, the health ministry said Monday. The woman, unnamed, displayed symptoms like fatigue, chills, muscle aches, headaches and coughing, as well as rashes on several body parts. She is being treated at the Ho Chi …

Around 10 young children on Binh Thuan Province’s Phu Quy Island were attacked and injured on Monday by a macaque who had escaped from a local family. The macaque, which weighed over 10 kilograms, entered a kindergarten in Ngu Phung Commune Monday afternoon. It climbed through a window of a …

A stampede at a soccer stadium inIndonesiahas killed 125 people and injured more than 320 after police used tear gas to quell a pitch invasion, authorities said on Sunday, in one of the world’s worst stadium disasters. Officers fired tear gas in an attempt to disperse agitated supporters of the …