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Police in the southern Ba Ria – Vung Tau Province have arrested a man who burned the national flag and filmed it for a social media post. Pham Cong Hung Nhan, 43, is now under investigation for insulting the national flag as per the Criminal Code, police said Monday. According …

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday she was “scared as heck” that Donald Trump would return to the White House in the November election and urged Democrats to “fight back.” Her comments came after Trump stormed to victory on Monday in the Iowa caucuses, the first step in the …

Ho Chi Minh City Dermatology Hospital received over 600 cases of cosmetic dermatology complications last year, an increase of more than 1.5 times compared to four years ago. The number of complications related to cosmetic procedures has been increasing annually, except for the pandemic year of 2021, Nguyen Thi Phan …

Police of the southern province of Binh Duong, in coordination with Chinese police, arrested a Chinese national on the international wanted list for human trafficking on Jan. 17. Liu Peiguang, 34, is being investigated in a human trafficking case by public security authorities in Liaocheng City, China’s Shandong Province. Investigation …

Singapore’s prime minister announced on Thursday the resignation of his transport chief after he was charged with 27 offenses in a corruption probe that has also ensnared a billionaire hotel tycoon. Transport Minister S. Iswaran was arrested in July of 2023 and released on bail in connection with a rare …

Donald Trump was threatened with expulsion from his Manhattan civil trial Wednesday after he repeatedly ignored a warning to keep quiet while writer E. Jean Carroll testified that he shattered her reputation after she accused him of sexual abuse. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan told the former president that his right …

A teenager in the southern Dong Nai Province has been blinded in one eye after being injected with fillers at an unlicensed beauty clinic. The 17-year-old girl was brought to Cho Ray Hospital in HCMC bordering Dong Nai on Jan. 9 with loss of vision in the left eye, a …

Of Europe’s top 10 business schools, five are in France, two from Spain and one each are in the U.K., Italy and Sweden, according to the Financial Times’ rankings. The 2023 European Business School Rankings issued last month have HEC Paris on top followed by the London Business School and …

Residing in a remote commune without electricity in Dak Nong Province in the Central Highlands, Thao Thi Sau and her husband left the village for the first time due to their son’s swollen stomach.  Nearly three-year-old Ma Seo Minh experienced unexplained abdominal pain in April 2023. Tao Thi Sau, 30, …

Municipal education leaders say the 57.4% of Ho Chi Minh City kindergartners studying English is too low a figure, and local authorities aim to up the number. According to the preschool unit under the city’s Department of Education and Training, around 157,000 children aged three-six in HCMC are studying English …