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Vietnam flooding submerges homes, kills 41, after relentless rain
AFP, Published on 20/11/2025
» NHA TRANG (VIETNAM) - Rescuers plucked stranded people from the rooftops of submerged homes as widespread flooding inundated central Vietnam, where authorities said on Thursday at least 41 people were killed.
Vietnam police probe Berlin-based editor over ‘anti-state’ acts
Bloomberg News, Published on 18/11/2025
» HANOI — Vietnam’s police have launched a criminal investigation into a Berlin-based Vietnamese journalist and website editor for alleged anti-state activities.
Bison herds 'reawaken' Yellowstone's prairies
AFP, Published on 29/08/2025
» WASHINGTON - There are few symbols of the American West more iconic than the bison -- shaggy giants that once roamed in the tens of millions before being nearly annihilated by European settlers.
Vietnam hunts 4 missing after sudden thunderstorm capsized tourist boat
Reuters, Published on 20/07/2025
» HA LONG BAY/HANOI, Vietnam - Dozens of rescuers were scrambling in Vietnam on Sunday to trace four missing people after retrieving the bodies of dozens killed when a thunderstorm capsized a boat in the top tourist destination of Ha Long Bay, authorities said.
Australian moth ‘uses stars to navigate long distances’
AFP, Published on 19/06/2025
» PARIS - A species of Australian moth travels up to a thousand kilometres every summer using the stars to navigate, scientists said Wednesday, the first time this talent has been discovered in an invertebrate covering vast distances.
Grand Vietnam parade 50 years after the fall of Saigon
AFP, Published on 30/04/2025
» HO CHI MINH CITY — Vietnam mounted its biggest-ever celebration of the fall of Saigon on its 50th anniversary Wednesday, including Chinese troops for the first time after Xi Jinping visited to portray Beijing as a more reliable partner than Washington.
India's elephant warning system tackles deadly conflict
AFP, Published on 18/04/2025
» DHAWALPUR — In central India's dry forests, community trackers hunt for signs of elephants to feed into an alert system that is helping prevent some of the hundreds of fatal tramplings each year.
Sweeping Vietnam internet law comes into force
AFP, Published on 25/12/2024
» Vietnam began enforcing new internet rules on Wednesday, requiring Facebook and TikTok to verify user identities and hand over data to authorities, in what critics say is the latest attack on freedom of expression.
Ho Chi Minh City opens first metro line after years of delays
Bloomberg, Published on 23/12/2024
» After years of funding shortages, ballooning costs and bureaucratic foot-dragging, Ho Chi Minh City is opening the first metro line to serve its 10 million residents.
Vietnam ousts deputy PM in ‘blazing furnace’ anti-graft campaign
Bloomberg, Published on 26/08/2024
» Vietnam’s National Assembly dismissed another deputy prime minister for violating anti-corruption rules, continuing an anti-graft campaign spearheaded by the late Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.