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Malaysian police handed over 37 fishermen from Quang Nam Province they had detained for more than three months to Vietnamese authorities Thursday night. They were put on flights from Kinabalu through Kuala Lumpur and HCMC to Da Nang, where they arrived at 10 p.m. The reunion with their loved ones …

Over 1,000 Vietnamese tricked into coming to Cambodia as illegal workers have been rescued, the foreign ministry said Thursday. The mnistry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said at a press meet that as of Wednesday, “over 1,000 Vietnamese citizens have been rescued and thousands have been supported with procedures.” Around …

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc will attend main events of the state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo and meet world leaders from September 25 to 28. Phuc’s attendance shows the love and acknowledgement of Vietnam’s people and leadership for Abe’s contributions to boost Vietnam and Japan’s relations, …

A man in the southern Binh Duong Province robbed a gold shop, tossed away the jewelry and waited to be arrested and sent to prison, police said Thursday. Tran Ngoc Son, 28, rushed into the Kim Huyen gold shop on Nguyen Trai Street of Di An Town on Tuesday night, …

A 39-year-old man in the south central Binh Thuan Province was hit by a moving train after lifting a barrier and crossing the tracks. Employees of the North-South railway at a section in Muong Man Commune of Ham Thuan Nam District in Binh Thuan said that around midnight Wednesday, as …

Hong Kong will scrap its controversial Covid-19 hotel quarantine policy for all arrivals from early October, more than 2-1/2 years after it was first adopted, news portal HK01 said on Thursday, citing unidentified sources. The move is set to be announced next week, it added. The city’s leader, John Lee, …

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called up 300,000 reservists to fight in Ukraine and said Moscow would respond with the might of all its vast arsenal if the West pursued what he called its “nuclear blackmail” over the conflict there. It was Russia’s first such mobilization since World War …

The Lunar New Year holidays do not fall on fixed days every year but instead are decided on an annual basis by various ministries. The Labor Code merely requires the Tet holidays, Vietnam’s most important festival, to last at least five days, and the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social …

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy demanded a special United Nations tribunal impose “just punishment” on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, including financial penalties and stripping Moscow of its veto power in the Security Council. Zelenskiy’s recorded address to world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday came after Russian President …

A single day of rain 11 days ago has been enough to keep a northern village inundated, with some places being under two meters of water. Over 200 people in Giang village in Son La Province’s Chieng Den Commune live surrounded by the wall of water. A local said the …