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The government has ordered relevant units to work on clearing 12 revetments built during the Vietnam War from HCMC’s Tan Son Nhat airport. The ministries of transport and national defense have been tasked with collecting opinions from related units on the clearance to create more space for the airport to …

A real estate group has cheated investors of more than VND8 trillion ($343.8 million) in a bond issuance fraud case, police said Thursday. Nguyen Van Thanh with the anti-corruption police department said real estate developer Tan Hoang Minh has transferred around VND2.1 trillion to the department at the State Treasury, …

Over 25,000 Vietnamese citizens abroad have been deported since 2018 for violating local laws, the public security ministry said. “Vietnamese abroad have become the main subjects of investigation for authorities during campaigns to search for illegal workers, and have frequently been mentioned in the media, negatively affecting the image of …

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong said Thursday that the nation’s anti-corruption fight aids socioeconomic development and is now stronger than ever. At a conference reviewing 10 years of the anti-corruption campaign, Trong said fighting corruption has become a trend that cannot be reversed, and the movement is supported by …

At least seven people have died and another 55 are feared to have been killed after a massive landslide in a remote area of the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur, local officials said on Thursday. Rescue workers battled heavy rains and inclement weather to pull out nineteen survivors from the …

A road to link Ho Chi Minh City’s Cat Lai Port with two routes has been proposed to boost regional connectivity. In a statement sent to the Ministry of Transport on Wednesday, the city’s Chairman Phan Van Mai said the proposed route would link Tan Cang-Cat Lai Terminal, Vietnam’s busiest …

China’s factory and services activity picked up in June, official data showed Thursday, fuelled by the easing of Covid-19 restrictions in major cities such as Shanghai and Beijing. The non-manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), a key gauge of activity in the world’s second-biggest economy, defied expectations and surged to 54.7 …

R. Kelly was sentenced on Wednesday to 30 years in prison, following the multiplatinum R&B singer’s conviction for exploiting his stardom and wealth over decades to lure women and underage girls into his orbit for sex. The sentence was imposed nine months after Kelly, 55, was convicted of racketeering and …

R. Kelly was sentenced on Wednesday to 30 years in prison, following the multiplatinum R&B singer’s conviction for exploiting his stardom and wealth over decades to lure women and underage girls into his orbit for sex. The sentence was imposed nine months after Kelly, 55, was convicted of racketeering and …

Taiwan on Wednesday rebuffed a complaint from the Philippines about live fire drills around an island deep in the South China Sea, saying it had the right to do so and always gives issues a warning of its exercises. The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs, in a message on Twitter …