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China shopping center fire kills 16

A fire that tore through a shopping center in southwestern China has killed 16 people, state media reported Thursday. Video broadcast by state media CCTV and shared on social media Wednesday night showed thick black smoke billowing out of the 14-storey tower in Zigong, Sichuan province. The blaze started in …

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First Vietnamese woman appointed Hanoi’s Party chief

The Communist Party’s decision-making body Politburo has appointed one of its members to be Hanoi’s Party secretary, replacing her disgraced predecessor. Bui Thi Minh Hoai, head of the Party’s Central Mass Mobilization Commission, an advisory body to the Party Central Committee which is responsible for public security and public relations, …

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Boiler explosion kills one in northern Vietnam

A boiler explosion at a tofu-manufacturing facility in northern Thai Nguyen Province killed one person and injured two others on Wednesday. At 9 a.m., Xoan, 49, was making tofu in front of a three-story house when there was an explosion. Xoan’s son, 25, died on the spot. Xoan and a …

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