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The Thai government will urgently move a bill to ban the recreational use of cannabis, the health minister said on Tuesday, after the kingdom decriminalised the drug in 2022.

Policemen in Hanoi are struggling to deal with serious traffic congestion in the run-up to the Tet Lunar New Year Holiday.

Cho Ray Hospital in HCM City has opened a flower road to welcome the Tet Lunar New Year Festival.

The police in the northern city of Haiphong have fined a coach company for cramming in nearly double the regulated capacity.

The northern port city of Hai Phong is rolling out measures to make breakthroughs in the development of economic zones (EZ) and industrial parks (IP) to attract more foreign direct investment.

A cold front has been forecasted to affect northern localities during the Lunar New Year.

Two bus routes running through tourism sites have just been launched in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

Singapore's parliament passed a law on Monday that could jail "dangerous" sex offenders and violent criminals indefinitely.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has set a target to produce some 500,000 tonnes of seaweed by 2030 as part of the nation’s seafood development strategy.

Vietnam Air Traffic Management Corporation (VATM) has announced that it has moved to apply low visibility procedures (LVP) at Noi Bai International Airport due to bad weather conditions.

A 6.5kg hawksbill sea turtle that was accidentally caught by a local man was released back to the sea off the coast of the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on February 5.

Former coach of Vietnamese national football team Park Hang-seo has just signed a contract to become a consultant of the newly-established Bac Ninh Football Club who will play in Vietnamese Football League Second Division for the 2024 season.

The central province of Quang Tri has assigned organisations to clear about 42 million sq.m. of land contaminated with cluster bombs this year, said its steering committee for settling war-left unexploded ordnance consequences.

Vietnamese students won a gold and a bronze medal at the 2024 Project Chemistry Olympiad (PCO) held in Russia, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

The Singapore government will review the terms of its Formula One Grand Prix deal after its former transport minister was charged with corruption, an official said Monday.

Despite the uncertain future of the real estate market, several prominent companies in the industry have recently announced significant profits.

The National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion called for more people to donate blood from now until the end of Tết Lunar New Year to ensure the demand for blood for emergencies and treatment during the holiday.

A South Korean court acquitted Samsung Electronics chief Lee Jae-yong on Monday of a raft of crimes linked to a controversial 2015 merger, Lee's lawyers said.

Weightlifter Trinh Van Vinh of Vietnam won a bronze medal in the men's 61kg category at the 2024 Asian Weightlifting Championship on February 4 in Uzbekistan, helping him earn more points for his Olympic place.