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Ho Chi Minh City police have arrested a 22-year-old woman for recruiting 1,500 others, mostly college students, to work as sex workers. Vu Nguyen Nhat Vy, currently a college student, is under investigation for “brokering sex services.” Her arrest came after the Criminal Police Department under the Ministry of Public …

A project to upgrade two runways at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport has been finished with runway 1B back in business from Saturday. Costing a total VND2.03 trillion ($87.4 million) of the state budget, a large-scale project was launched last July to renovate the capital airport, comprising work to upgrade …

The Vatican and Vietnam have agreed to upgrade their relations, which have been slowly improving since a total break after the Vietnam War nearly half a century ago. A joint working group agreed at its latest meeting in Hanoi that in the near future relations would be upgraded to the …

Thailand on Friday announced the end of compulsory Covid-19 tests for vaccinated travelers, as the country steps up efforts to revive its pandemic-thumped tourism industry. Tight border restrictions helped the kingdom limit infections and deaths in 2020 but brought the tourism sector — which had accounted for about a fifth …

Covid-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States for the second year in a row in 2021, with death rates rising for most age groups, a government study showed on Friday. Covid-19 was the underlying or contributing cause of 460,513 deaths in the United States last …

Europeans endured the hottest summer on record last year, with wildfires, floods and intense heatwaves hitting the continent, according to a report by EU scientists released Friday. Summer temperatures were about 1 degree Celsius above the average over the past three decades, with Italy even recording temperatures of 48.8C – …

Indonesia, the world’s top palm oil producer, announced plans to ban exports of the most widely used vegetable oil on Friday, in a shock move that could further inflame surging global food inflation. The halting of shipments of the cooking oil and its raw material, widely used in products ranging …

The vice principal of a high school in the southern province of Ca Mau forced two students to eat food that had been thrown into the trash bin. News about the incident, which has been doing the rounds of social media since April 18, was confirmed Friday by Le Hoang …

Dong Nai Province authorities have asked the Vietnam National Commission for UNESCO to comment on a highway project cutting through a world biosphere reserve. The province, which borders Ho Chi Minh City, said it needs feedback from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to report on a …

Health authorities confirmed 11,160 new Covid-19 cases Friday in 59 provinces and cities. Hanoi top Friday’s tally with 980, followed by Phu Tho (761) and Bac Giang (539). With seven deaths confirmed in the past 24 hours, the death toll since the start of the pandemic rose to 42,998, or …