Ho Chi Minh City is seeking to have at least 28 percent of its students enrolled in basic science, engineering and technology disciplines by the end of 2026, as part of an effort to build a skilled workforce to support innovation, digital transformation and long-term economic growth.

TOKYO -- Japanese police conducted 13 undercover investigations into so-called dark part-time jobs through last month, National Police Agency sources said Thursday.

TOKYO -- The number of people who died by suicide in Japan in 2025 came to 19,097, standing below 20,000 for the first time since the statistics began in 1978, preliminary government data showed Thursday.

TOKYO - Toyota Motor sold a record 11.3 million vehicles globally in 2025, the company said on Thursday, retaining its crown as the world's top-selling automaker for a sixth consecutive year.

LAHORE/HANOI -- Authorities in Pakistan have ordered enhanced screening of people entering the country for signs of infections of the deadly Nipah virus after India confirmed two cases, adding to the number of Asian countries stepping up controls.

Vincom Retail JSC on Thursday announced the launch of Vincom Collection, a new brand of experience-focused commercial streets to be developed in major Vinhomes urban areas and key tourism destinations across Vietnam.

SEOUL -- Samsung Electronics forecast a worsening chip shortage this year driven by the AI boom, with strong memory demand benefiting its mainstay chip business but creating headwinds for its other units like smartphones and displays.

Amazon confirmed 16,000 corporate job cuts on Wednesday, completing a plan for around 30,000 since October, while leaving open the possibility of further reductions.

Police in Quang Ninh Province, northern Vietnam have discovered and confiscated nearly four metric tons of food products of unknown origin that were about to be released onto the market ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, or Tet.

LONDON - Action-packed dark comedy «One Battle After Another» led nominations for the BAFTA Film Awards on Tuesday, with vampire thriller and box office smash «Sinners» also widely recognised at Britain's top movie honours.

President of the European Council António Costa arrived in Hanoi on Wednesday evening, beginning his two-day official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of State President Luong Cuong.

BOGOTA -- A plane crash in northeast Colombia on Wednesday killed all 15 people on board, including a local lawmaker, state-run airline Satena said.

CHENGDU, CHINA -- Twin giant pandas, Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, arrived in Sichuan Province in southwestern China on Wednesday after leaving Tokyo's Ueno Zoo the previous day.

TOKYO -- Overseas assets held by wealthy residents of Japan in 2024 rose 26.3 pct from the previous year to a record high of 8,194.5 billion yen, the National Tax Agency said Wednesday.

PARIS -- Japanese physicist Toshiko Yuasa is among the 72 female scientists set to join the currently male-only list of names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower, the city of Paris has said.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Parts of Australia sweltered in record temperatures of close to 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) on Tuesday as the country sweated through a prolonged heat wave.

NEW YORK -- Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430,000 years.

Hanoi police have charged four people, including the directors of three environmental services companies, over the illegal dumping of thousands of tonnes of construction waste on agricultural land in the capital, authorities said on Tuesday.

The Ho Chi Minh City police department’s economic crime division has uncovered a shocking case of food safety violations, involving the use of industrial chemicals to process thousands of metric tons of snail meat for sale on the market.

Without a background in business or formal culinary training, Russian Ivan Fomenko came to kombucha largely by chance, sparked by an idea from his ex-girlfriend and a simple motivation: finding a way to earn a living in Vietnam.

Health authorities in Ho Chi Minh City have stepped up screening and surveillance at Tan Son Nhat International Airport for passengers arriving from or transiting through areas affected by the Nipah virus after India reported new confirmed cases, the city’s health department said on Wednesday.

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Authorities in Vinh Long Province, southern Vietnam said on Tuesday that Ba Dong Beach, a popular coastal tourism site, had been cleaned up and was ready to receive visitors for the Lunar New Year after media reports highlighted pollution and deteriorating conditions.

Vietnamese police said on Tuesday they had arrested two Chinese nationals suspected of breaking into a home in the central city of Da Nang, prying open a safe and stealing property worth about VND300 million (US$11,480) before attempting to flee north by train.

Vietnam is approaching a major demographic turning point, with projections showing the country will exit its ‘golden’ population period within just over a decade and move rapidly toward an aging and eventually ‘super-aged’ society by mid-century.

NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday that India and the European Union have reached a free trade agreement to deepen their economic and strategic ties.

Trinh Van Quyet, founder of FLC Group, together with the real estate developer’s leadership, has held a meeting with South Korean Ambassador to Vietnam Choi Youngsam to discuss cooperation orientations and expand connections between the business communities of the two countries.

A pair of photos showing a towering foreign visitor awkwardly eating a bowl of ‘hu tieu’ (Vietnamese rice noodle soup) at a sidewalk stall in Vietnam has gone viral on local social media, sparking amused commentary about cultural contrasts, street food, and the country’s famously low plastic stools.

BERLIN -- European carmakers, squeezed by U.S. tariffs and price wars in China, will get a welcome boost from an EU-India trade deal that sharply drops tariffs on car imports, but face a tough market dominated by homegrown firms and compact Japanese «kei cars.»

PARIS - France's National Assembly on Monday backed legislation to ban children under 15 years old from social media, amid growing concerns about online bullying and mental health risks.

Authorities can confiscate gold bullion involved in transactions conducted at shops that are not licensed to trade gold bars from February 9, as per a new government decree imposing tough penalties on illegal gold business activities.

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President of the European Council António Costa will pay an official visit to Vietnam from Wednesday to Thursday at the invitation of Vietnamese State President Luong Cuong, the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Monday.

NAGOYA -- Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority on Monday began an on-site inspection of Chubu Electric Power Co.'s headquarters over earthquake risk data fraud linked to the firm's Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan.

Vietnam recorded a sharp surge in Russian tourist arrivals in 2025, with visitor numbers nearly tripling from a year earlier to nearly 690,000, recording the fastest growth among major inbound markets and exceeding the pre-COVID-19 peak, according to the Vietnam National Authority of Tourism (VNAT).