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Chinese lithium hub Sichuan province will ration electricity supply to factories until Saturday, state media reported, as a heatwave sends power demands soaring and dries up reservoirs. Temperatures in the province — home to nearly 84 million people — have hovered above 40-42 degrees Celsius (104-108 degrees Fahrenheit) since last …

South Korea is set to take in more foreign workers, including from Vietnam, and ease qualification requirements for them, the Vietnamese labor ministry has said. The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs’s department of overseas labor announced recently that the South Korean government has decided to increase the quota …

The United States, South Korea and Japan participated in a ballistic missile defense exercise off Hawaii’s coast last week, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, reviving combined drills with an eye on North Korea as well as China. It was the first time the three countries have held such drills since …

A Da Nang woman has been sentenced to 2.5 years in jail for illegally providing accommodation for a South Korean man without a passport or visa. Dang Thuy Diem, 41, was guilty of “brokering illegal stay in Vietnam,” the Da Nang People’s Court pronounced Monday. In 2019 she rented an …

Kevin Kendall pulls up at the only green hydrogen refuelling station in Birmingham, Britain’s second-biggest city, and swiftly fills his sedan with clean gas. Green hydrogen is in sharp focus as governments seek to slash carbon emissions amid record-high temperatures and to safeguard energy supplies hit by the invasion of …

The White House is seeking to improve President Joe Biden’s low approval ratings by launching a campaign to highlight some of the recent key policy wins by the administration ahead of the November midterm elections. Cabinet members of the Biden administration will be taking 35 trips to 23 states through …

Inflation, supply chain problems and ongoing Covid-19 lockdowns in China are among the factors conspiring to delay a full recovery in business travel to its pre-pandemic level, according to an industry forecast released Monday. The Global Business Travel Association now projects business travel will regain its 2019 level of $1.43 …

Germany announced that it will issue visas for the new Vietnamese passports which have had information of the holders’ place of birth manually added. The Vietnamese Embassy in Germany said that the German Federal Foreign Office sent it a note on Monday saying it will issue visa for the new …

Holding two children aged 6 and 8 in her arms, the mother broke down Sunday afternoon as she spoke about praying hard for a miracle to save her missing husband. Tran Thi Huy, 28, of Dien Chau District in the north central Nghe An Province, is the wife of 31-year-old …

The first U.K. – Vietnam migration dialogue was held Monday in Hanoi to improve cooperation and prevent human smuggling. The dialogue was part of U.K. Home Office Permanent Under-Secretary Matthew Rycroft’s two-day visit to Vietnam. The dialogue aimed to improve migration cooperation, deliver on the potential of the existing migration …