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A casino in Cambodia has handed over 11 Vietnamese citizens to local authorities after 56 of their brethren escaped the facility on Saturday. The foreign ministry said Vietnam was currently cooperating with Cambodian authorities to bring the Vietnamese citizens back home as soon as possible, and to check if there …

A bus crash killed 27 people and injured a further 20 when the vehicle rolled over on a highway in southwest China’s mountainous Guizhou province, local police said in a statement on Sunday. The accident took place in the early hours of Sunday morning in Sandu county, around 170 km …

Rescuers in Nepal battled against torrential rains to pull out bodies from the wreckage of homes buried by a landslide that caused 22 deaths and injured 10 people, officials said on Sunday. The latest calamity occurred in Achham district, about 450 km (281 miles) west of the capital city of …

U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to pay tribute at the coffin of Queen Elizabeth in London on Sunday, joining hundreds of thousands of people who have filed past the late British monarch as she lies in state. Biden will later join King Charles and scores of other world leaders …

Australia will not ban Russian tourists from entering the country as part of sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine, Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Sunday. Since the start of the conflict, Australia has sanctioned hundreds of Russian individuals and entities, including most of Russia’s banking sector and …

The National Hospital of Odonto-Stomatology in Hanoi, the country’s top facility in the field, is running out of anesthetic and may have to shut down, its doctors said. “We will be out of anesthetic in the next two weeks. It’s a total headache looking for replacements,” said Pham Thanh Ha, …

A man in the Mekong Delta’s Long An Province was found smuggling two pistols through the border from Cambodia on Friday. Nguyen Van Thuong, 31, was found carrying two K59 pistols when he crossed the border through My Quy Tay in Duc Hue District Friday afternoon. Long An border guards, …

A group of over 50 Vietnamese workers who fled a casino in Cambodia’s Svay Rieng province near Moc Bai border gate were caught by Cambodian authorities on Saturday afternoon. Authorities in the southern province of Tay Ninh, home to Moc Bai, confirmed that at around 2 p.m., 56 Vietnamese people …

Hanoi People’s Court sentenced two former police officers to six and nine years in jail Saturday for taking bribes from a hospital director to help him escape bidding violation charges. Bui Trung Kien, 42, a former police officer of the anti-corruption police department under the Ministry of Public Security, received …

Over VND300 billion ($12.6 million) have been invested in a northern railway station, but for nearly two years, it has been used as a parking space and local market. Ha Long Station is a part of Ha Long – Cai Lan, a sub-project of the Yen Vien – Pha Lai …