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The Vietnamese embassy in Germany will issue a certificate confirming the birthplace of holders of Vietnam’s new passports. It would be issued free of cost to support people who were already granted entry to perform other administrative procedures, the embassy website said. Those who want the confirmation “need to … …

The Nhon-Hanoi Station metro line, scheduled to have its elevated section running by the end of this year, will miss the deadline, its managers have said. The Nhon depot construction is less than 80 percent complete and the line’s consortium of sponsors, including the Asia Development Bank, the French Development …

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Saturday for the evacuation of the eastern Donetsk region which has seen fierce clashes between his country’s forces and the Russian military. The governor of the eastern Donetsk region, where Moscow is focusing the brunt of its offensive, said that six civilians were killed …

After six months of post-Covid economic recovery, Ho Chi Minh City factories face material and order shortages, forcing them to downsize or reduce working hours, affecting staff’s incomes. For the past month, Nguyen Thi Thuy Dung, 32, a worker at Datalogic Vietnam, an Italian manufacturer of automated data collection equipment …

A Chinese rocket fell back to Earth on Saturday over the Indian Ocean but NASA said Beijing had not shared the “specific trajectory information” needed to know where possible debris might fall. U.S. Space Command said the Long March 5B rocket re-entered over the Indian Ocean at approximately 12:45 p.m. …

At least 80 people have been killed and 30 others are missing in floods that have wreaked havoc across Iran for more than a week, state media reported Saturday. Since the start of the Iranian month of Mordad on July 23, “59 people died and 30 are still missing in …

The Vietnamese embassy in Germany will issue a certificate confirming the birthplace of holders of Vietnam’s new passports to get German visas. It would be issued free of cost, the embassy website said. Those who want the confirmation “need to … present proof of place of birth such as a …

Spain reported its first monkeypox-related death on Friday, in what is thought to be Europe’s first fatality from the disease and only the second outside Africa in the current outbreak. Brazil reported earlier on Friday the first monkeypox-related death outside the African continent in the current wave of the disease. …

Some 4,000 soldiers mostly from Indonesia and the United States will conduct a joint military exercise next week that underscores “the importance we place on a free and open Indo-Pacific region,” a senior U.S. military official said on Friday. The annual “Super Garuda Shield” exercise, which the United States called …

North Korea reported no new fever cases on Saturday (Jul 30) for the first time since its acknowledgement of a Covid outbreak in the isolated country in mid-May, state-run media reported. North Korea said earlier this month it was on a path to “finally defuse” its first publicly declared coronavirus …