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The date of May 19, 1959 became a historical milestone when the Party Central Committee decided to set up Corp 559 and build a strategic logistics line – the Truong Son Trail.

The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) has been fined 39,500 USD because of supporters letting off flares.

Young muscular Pa Then men hop around hot coals while bending their back then jump into the hot coals amidst the tremendous cheer from villagers.

An earthquake of 6.5 magnitude hit the southern island of Samar, the Philippines, on April 23, a day after a 6.1 quake rattled the country's north.

At least nine people have been killed and 30 others injured after a 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck Gutad town on the Philippines’ Luzon island, said Philippine authorities on April 23.

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck Gutad town on the Philippines’ Luzon island on April 22 afternoon, with at least two people killed due to house collapse.

A strong 6.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Sulawesi island, Indonesia, on April 12, triggering a tsunami warning, the US Geological Survey said.

Eight people were killed or went missing in a blaze in Nam Tu Liem district, Hanoi, in the early hours on April 12, according to initial reports.

According to information from the Vietnamese Embassy in Thailand, no Vietnamese citizens have been found to have been affected by the April 10 blaze at Central World – Thailand’s biggest shopping complex in Bangkok, said spokesperson of the foreign ministry Le Thi Thu Hang.

Central World – Thailand’s biggest shopping complex in Bangkok – has been closed for investigation into the reason of a blaze occurred on April 10 which killed at least two people, and check fire suppression system of the building.

Vietnam has once again demanded that China respect its sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes in response to China’s live-fire drills and construction plan in Hoang Sa.

The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang has some 13,000ha of forests facing a major threat of fires in An Minh, Hon Dat, Giang Thanh, and Phu Quoc districts.

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's Moluccas Islands on the morning of March 24, according to the US Geological Survey.

Vietnam resolutely protests against Taiwan (China)’s live-fire exercise around Ba Binh (Itu Aba) island in Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago, demanding that it refrain from such actions in the future, stated the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang.

Prolonged heat waves without rains have left 58,000 hectares of special-use and protective forests in the southwestern province of Tay Ninh at high risk of catching fires.

Nine Myanmar policemen were killed in an attack on their station in Rakhine state. No organisations have claimed responsibility.

Thirty-five people, mainly students, have been hospitalised after breathing in methane from chemical waste that had been illegally dumped into a river in Pasir Gudang, Johor state, Malaysian authorities said on March 7.

As disputes between apartment residents and developers are cropping up in Ho Chi Minh City, the Ministry of Construction and the National Assembly’s Committee on Law will inspect the management and operation of several apartment buildings in the city at the end of March.

Over 100,000 ha out of 350,000 ha of forests in the south central coastal province of Binh Thuan are on the highest alert for fires as the peak of the dry season begins, according to the provincial Forestry Management Department.

The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) in Pekanbaru, Indonesia, has detected 54 hotspots at high risk of bush and forest fires in several parts of Riau province, Sumatra island.