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Sincerity, trust and responsibility are crucial for healthy international relations and the lack thereof causes tension and conflict in many regions, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said at CSIS. He pointed to the thriving development of the Vietnam-U.S. relationship founded on mutual respect and support after nearly three decades of …

Recent earthquakes in the Central Highlands are a cause for concern, says the Institute of Geophysics, calling for extensive studies and research to ascertain causes and draw up response plans. In a report released Wednesday, it said that the earthquakes that occurred from March 2021 to April 2022, with magnitudes …

North Korea confirmed its first Covid-19 outbreak on Thursday, calling it the “gravest national emergency” and ordering a national lockdown, with state media reporting an Omicron variant had been detected in Pyongyang. The first public admission of Covid infections highlights the potential for a major crisis in a country that …

The United States is in the grip of a severe shortage of baby formula – with a mass product recall aggravating pandemic supply chain woes – sending families on sometimes desperate hunts for the vital supplies. And it has been going on for months, according to Sara Khan, the mother …

North Korea officially confirmed its first Covid-19 outbreak on Thursday, with state media reporting a sub-variant of the highly transmissible Omicron virus, known as BA.2, had been detected in Pyongyang. “There has been the biggest emergency incident in the country, with a hole in our emergency quarantine front, that has …

Cambodian fishermen on the Mekong River got a shock when they inadvertently hooked an endangered giant freshwater stingray four meters long and weighing 180 kilos, scientists said on Wednesday. The female leviathan, one of Southeast Asia’s largest and rarest species of fish, was caught by accident last week in Stung …

Award-winning photographer Nick Ut on Wednesday gave Pope Francis one of the 20th century’s most famous and consequential news pictures, that of a 9-year old Vietnamese girl running naked from a napalm attack in 1972. The girl in the picture, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, now 59, also was at the …

Sincerity, trust and responsibility are crucial for healthy international relations and the lack thereof causes tension and conflict in many regions, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said Thursday (U.S. time). He pointed to the thriving development of the Vietnam-U.S. relationship founded on mutual respect and support after nearly three decades …

Sincerity, trust and responsibility play major roles in dealing with international issues, Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at Washington Thursday afternoon (U.S. time). The PM said he was delighted to see the thriving development of the Vietnam-U.S. relationship founded on mutual respect and support after nearly three decades …

Experts say Hanoi could learn some lessons from other cities around the world to improve its walking-only streets. Hanoi is one of Vietnam’s leading places in the development of pedestrian squares. To add to existing streets around Hoan Kiem Lake and the Old Quarter, more will come up in Tay …