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A majority of expats are content with Vietnam’s cost of living but find its administration among the worst worldwide, a new survey has found. As many as 80 percent of surveyed expats said they are satisfied with the general cost of living in Vietnam compared to the global rate of …

Authorities in HCMC evacuated hundreds of families from near a chemical plant that has been burning for four days, killing plants and animals en masse in its vicinity. The fire began on the night of July 9 at the 1,000-square-meter plant belonging to a food company on Tran Dai Nghia …

Japanese electronics giant Panasonic said Thursday it will spend $4 billion to build a new battery factory in the United States for electric vehicles. The lithium-ion battery plant in Kansas could create up to 4,000 new jobs, Panasonic said, as the Tesla supplier drives to expand its presence. “With the …

Ohio police have confirmed a 10-year-old rape victim crossed state lines to terminate her pregnancy, local media reported Wednesday, in a case drawing broad attention after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a federal right to abortion. The girl’s ordeal of traveling to neighboring Indiana for the medical procedure was highlighted …

More than 40 people have been reported unaccounted for by loved ones after floodwaters swept a riverfront Appalachian community in southwestern Virginia on Wednesday, triggered by heavy rains in the area, local authorities said. As many as 18 search-and-rescue teams, including swift-water rescue crews, were dispatched to the area in …

North Korea on Wednesday recognized two Russian-backed breakaway “people’s republics” in eastern Ukraine as independent states, a separatist leader and the North’s official news agency said. The move makes North Korea only the third country after Russia and Syria to recognize the two breakaway entities, the Donetsk (DPR) and Luhansk …

Military engineers are examining the remains of a U.S. Navy plane found under a pond by a local man and sold as scrap in Tra Vinh Province. Colonel Tran Quoc Khanh, deputy head of the 9th Military Region staff department’s engineering division, said Wednesday a team checking metal pieces and …

Hanoi’s BRT line failed to attract as many passengers as it should have because its design was changed from the original plan, according to World Bank Vietnam. The Kim Ma-Yen Nghia BRT line, which received funding and other assistance from the World Bank, has not been able to meet expectations …

Heavy downpours and waves more than two meters high have crushed sea dikes in the Mekong Delta, flooding hundreds of houses and thousands of hectares of farmland.     Heavy rains leave Mekong Delta localities under water Heavy rains, high tide leave Mekong Delta localities under water

A man in Ho Chi Minh City was arrested for snatching the phone of a French tourist. Police of HCMC’s District 5 on Wednesday said they were investigating Dinh Cong Minh, 44, for allegedly snatching a mobile phone from a foreign tourist. At Tuesday noon, while riding his motorbike in …