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Police in the northern Lao Cai Province have detained six Vietnamese men for illegally bringing two Chinese nationals into Vietnam from China. Officers in Lao Cai that borders China on Tuesday caught two people on a motorbike following suspicious behavior, Vietnam News Agency reported. Nguyen Hoang Minh Duc, 19, and …

The health ministry has said it will prioritize approvals for importing and distributing ingredients to make monkeypox drugs. Drugs in which tecovirimat, brincidofvir, cidofovir, and probenecid are active ingredients are recommended by WHO to treat the viral disease. Monkeypox vaccines have also been approved for distribution in several countries. The …

Civil servants are leaving their jobs in droves, unable to make ends meet on their meager salaries, knowing their abilities can guarantee jobs with higher incomes elsewhere. Despite his relatively senior position as a manager, Tran Cong Hoang, 32, quit his job at a state agency in Ho Chi Minh …

The Philippines has scrapped an order for 16 Russian military helicopters, an official confirmed Wednesday, following reports former president Rodrigo Duterte decided to cancel it due to U.S. sanctions on Moscow. Manila — a longtime Washington ally — agreed in November to pay 12.7 billion pesos ($228 million) for the …

China’s war games around Taiwan have led Biden administration officials to recalibrate their thinking on whether to scrap some tariffs or potentially impose others on Beijing, setting those options aside for now, according to sources familiar with the deliberations. President Joe Biden’s team has been wrestling for months with various …

The Disney+ streaming service saw its number of paying subscribers leap beyond expectations in the last quarter, as rival Netflix’s client count ebbed, results showed Wednesday. The number of people subscribing to Disney+ topped 152 million, up some 31 percent from the same period a year earlier, the entertainment giant …

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared victory in the battle against the novel coronavirus, ordering a lifting of maximum anti-epidemic measures imposed in May, state media said on Thursday. North Korea has not revealed how many confirmed infections of the virus it has found, but since July 29 it …

Storm Mulan weakened into a tropical depression after entering the Gulf of Tonkin Wednesday night, causing heavy rains in northern and north central Vietnam. The tropical depression lay centered over Quang Ninh Province and port city Hai Phong at 4 a.m. Thursday with wind speed of 49 kph. It has …

Expatriates enjoy their lives in Vietnam, but would like the government to do more to facilitate their stay, particularly in terms of immigration policies. Having coming to Vietnam five years ago to start a business, Dutchman Wouter Luijten has many good things to say about living in the country. “Vietnamese …

Storm Mulan is set to hit Vietnam’s northern coast, from Quang Ninh to Nam Dinh, at around 4 a.m. Thursday with wind speeds of up to 74 kilometers per hour. It was centered around 200 kilometers from Bach Long Vi Island in northern Hai Phong City as of 5 p.m. …