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A slice of a mountain alongside a National Highway 8A section in central Vietnam’s Ha Tinh Province crumbled Thursday morning, dumping 8,000 m3 of rubble and blocking traffic. The mountainside, located about 7 km away from Huong Son District’s Cau Treo border gate, saw a 50 m section slide down …

Seven corpses were found floating off Phu Quoc Island in the southern Kien Giang Province Thursday.. At 11 a.m., locals saw the first two bodies drifting into the Bai Truong beach area of Phu Quoc. Five more bodies were found later in the vicinity. All the bodies were bloated and …

An explosion at a coal furnace in northern Quang Ninh Province, the biggest coal producer in Vietnam, killed two workers and injured one Thursday. The accident took place at around 4 a.m. at the coal mine of Nam Mau Coal Co. Ltd in the province’s Uong Bi Town, around two …

Despite Vietnam’s success in containing Covid-19, the pandemic has revealed cracks in the national healthcare system. Since the outbreak began most caretakers faced a mountain load of work, and working without a break was a common ordeal for most doctors and nurses in the larger cities. Some 60% experienced a …

Taiwan will end its mandatory Covid-19 quarantine for arrivals from Oct. 13 and welcome tourists back, the government said on Thursday, completing a major step on its plan to re-open to the outside world. Taiwan had kept some of its entry and quarantine rules in place as large parts of …

The European Union on Wednesday promised a “robust” response to any intentional disruption of its energy infrastructure after saying it suspected sabotage was behind gas leaks discovered this week on subsea Russian pipelines to Europe. As gas spewed out under the Baltic Sea for a third day after first being …

57 people were injured amid the onslaught of Storm Noru and no one was killed, a result thanks to proactive measures by the authorities and residents’ cooperation, officials said. Central Vietnam’s Quang Ngai Province, where the storm’s eye traveled through, saw 41 people injured, while Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue …

Hurricane Ian plowed into Florida’s Gulf Coast with catastrophic force on Wednesday, unleashing howling winds, torrential rains and a treacherous surge of ocean surf that made it one of the most powerful U.S. storms in recent years. Crashing ashore as a Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of up to …

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz arrived in Hanoi Wednesday night for a five-day official visit to Vietnam. During his stay he is expected to attend a series of events in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, hold talks with Vietnamese leaders and attend the signing of several bilateral agreements, …

Oil prices fell in early Asian trade on Thursday as a strong dollar and economic woes outweighed optimism over consumer demand. Brent crude futures fell 59 cents, or 0.7%, to $88.73 per barrel by 0016 GMT while U.S. crude futures fell by 54 cents, or 0.7%, to $81.59. Both benchmarks …