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Thousands of people took to the streets in the United States on Saturday to push for action on the devastating gun violence plaguing the country, where Republican politicians have repeatedly blocked efforts to enact stricter firearms laws. Protesters of all ages streamed onto the National Mall in Washington, where activists …

Minister of National Defense Phan Van Giang affirmed peace is the legitimate wish, interest, and aspiration of each country while delivering a speech at Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. “While non-traditional security issues are occurring more and more, causing severe consequences, it’s necessary for the international community to join hands in …

Eight Mongolians have been arrested in Hanoi for stealing the wallets of a Swedish couple and spending VND1.05 billion ($45,293) in credit, police said Saturday. At around 12:50 a.m. on June 3, the Swedish couple was eating pho at a shop on Ly Quoc Su Street of Hoan Kiem District …

The Yen Vien-Ngoc Hoi railway line in Hanoi was approved in 2004 with a bridge to replace Long Bien, but construction has yet to start. It will run 28.7 km with dual gauge tracks of 1,435 mm and 1,000 mm. The line will replace Long Bien Bridge on the Red …

Hundreds of square meters of coral are dying en-masse off the coast of Nha Trang, with illegal fishing one of the possible culprits. Nguyen Son, a tourist from Hanoi, traveled to the Mun Island in the Nha Trang Bay conservation site late last month. He expected the ecosystem at the …

No major US trading partners such as China have been labeled as manipulating their currencies, but Taiwan and Vietnam were added to a “monitoring list” of foreign exchange policies, the Treasury Department said Friday. Washington also will continue “closely monitoring” China’s actions and again raised concerns about Beijing’s “lack of …

Russia and China have opened a new cross-border bridge in the Far East that they hope will further strengthen trade as Moscow reels from sweeping Western sanctions imposed over its actions in Ukraine. The bridge linking the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk to the Chinese city of Heihe across the Amur …

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged Friday to boost its regional security presence to counter multiple threats, from China’s expansion in the South China Sea to North Korea’s nuclear missile program. Earlier, on the first day of the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chinese Defense …

Oil prices fell on Friday, after U.S. consumer prices rose more than expected and China imposed new Covid-19 lockdown measures. Brent crude fell $1.06 to settle at $122.01 a barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude fell 84 cents to settle at $120.67 a barrel. Both benchmarks still posted weekly gains, …

The U.S. will drop from Sunday a 17-month-old requirement that people arriving in the country by air test negative for Covid-19, an official said, a move that follows intense lobbying by the airlines and the travel industry. A formal announcement will be made later on Friday. The step comes as …