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A tourist fell into the sea from the prow of a boat in Ha Long Bay and drowned last weekend. The tourist boat Long Giang 68 was on a tour of the bay with 15 tourists on Saturday afternoon when Nguyen Ngoc Phat, 43, a visitor from the southern Can …

A Vietnamese man died after falling down into the sea while standing at the prow of a tourist boat in Ha Long Bay last weekend. On the afternoon of Saturday, the tourist boat Long Giang 68 went on tour to take 15 tourists around the world famous bay in northern …

Shanghai aims to reopen broadly and allow normal life to resume from June 1, a city official said on Monday, after declaring that 15 of its 16 districts had eliminated cases outside quarantine areas. Deputy Mayor Zong Ming, speaking at a daily online news conference, gave the clearest timetable yet …

An 18-year-old white man suspected of fatally shooting 10 people in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, appears to be the latest in a line of “copycat” gunmen carrying out deadlier mass shootings inspired by previous attackers, experts warned on Sunday. Payton Gendron, who surrendered to police on Saturday …

Ukraine’s gas transit system operator said over the weekend that it had resumed operations at two distribution stations in the Kharkiv region and restarted gas supply to more than 3,000 consumers. Ukraine has scored a series of successes since Russia invaded on Feb. 24, forcing Moscow’s commanders to abandon an …

North Korea on Monday reported eight more deaths from “fever” after recently announcing its first Covid cases, with the military deployed to resolve “supply of medicines” issues. Leader Kim Jong Un ordered the military commission to act “on immediately stabilizing the supply of medicines in Pyongyang City by involving the …

Skyscrapers and other major projects will have to take measures to avoid traffic jams near their construction sites or implement their projects in phases, HCMC authorities say. Experts say such tight restrictions should have been imposed long ago to avoid the current mess and chaos on many roads. Cars and …

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Saturday said he would request that the Vietnamese be considered an ethnic minority community in the U.S. Meeting with 70 ethnic Vietnamese representing the community in the U.S.’s East Coast, he thanked them for their contributions to Vietnam, saying it helped strengthen Vietnam-U.S. relations. …

Thousands of followers and monks gathered at the Vietnam Quoc Tu Pagoda in HCM City’s District 10 Sunday to celebrate the birth of the Buddha as the Vesak festival. Thich Tri Quang, acting Supreme Patriarch of the Verification Council of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha, said each monk, disciple and believer …

Vietnam consistently and persistently pursues to build an independent economy that’s also actively integrating with the world, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said Saturday. Speaking at the Harvard University in Massachusetts, the U.S. on Saturday, Chinh said Vietnam strives to build an independent, self-reliant economy that actively and positively integrates …