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Several Hanoi locations recorded rain levels of over 200 mm since Thursday night, inundating multiple streets and paralyzing traffic on Friday morning. Due to the impacts of a tropical depression that used to be storm Mulan, rains poured down in Hanoi the entire Thursday, getting heavier towards the afternoon. From …

U.S. federal agents were looking for documents relating to nuclear weapons when they raided former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida this week, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. It was not clear if such documents were recovered at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, the Post said. …

Camera traps have been set up at Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park to determine whether tigers have returned to the UNESCO heritage site after a local reported seeing one. The park’s management said Wednesday the cameras have been in position where a local reported seeing a tiger inside the park …

For the first time in months, Vietnam is among the top four countries with the highest number of recorded Covid-19 cases in a week, the WHO said Wednesday. Vietnam has been recording over 571,000 new Covid-19 cases a week on average, which is only behind South Korea (713,000 cases), the …

Nguyen Anh Tuan, head of the finance ministry’s price management department, has been dismissed of all positions in the Communist Party for his involvement in a Covid-19 test kit scandal. Dang Cong Khoi and Nguyen Van Truyen, both deputy heads of the Ministry of Finance’s Department of Price Management, received …

Hanoi plans to send 380 state workers from different departments to study in developed countries like Singapore and the U.S. for VND90 billion ($3.85 million). According to the plan issued early this week, the Home Affairs Department will send 60 staff to study urban development management in Japan, Singapore and …

Localities stand prepared to evacuate around 115,000 people as flooding and landslide risks rise due to impacts of a tropical depression that storm Mulan has turned into. At a Thursday meeting with the National Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, Hoang Phuc Lam, deputy director of the National …

Finland has stopped recognizing Vietnam’s new passports due to the lack of information regarding places of birth, the Embassy of Finland in Hanoi announced on Thursday. In a statement released on its Facebook account, the embassy said the new passport “does not contain information of the place of birth of …

All three expressways that connect with HCMC, Vietnam’s largest commercial hub, are overloaded, preventing fast movement on the roads.     Express traffic impossible on expressways connecting with HCMC Express traffic impossible on expressways connecting with HCMC

The death toll from South Korea’s record-breaking rains and flooding has risen to 11, officials said Thursday, with eight more people still missing as Seoul struggles to clean up after the deluge. Two days of torrential rain flooded streets and subway stations in the capital, with President Yoon Suk-yeol saying …