08-06-2020 06:31
NEW DELHI: India and China have agreed to "peacefully resolve" a latest border flare-up that has heightened tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours, New Delhi said on Sunday (Jun 7), after a high-level meeting between army commanders.
04-06-2020 09:04
NEW YORK: Wall Street stocks surged on Wednesday (Jun 3), again betting on an economic rebound in the United States following coronavirus shutdowns and shrugging off rising tensions with China.
02-06-2020 16:39
A 30-year-old woman who illegally returned to Vietnam from China on May 28 and then flew from Hanoi to HCM City has tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 twice, director of HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases said on Tuesday morning.
01-06-2020 06:05
The development of industrial zones (IZs) needs a comprehensive plan to capture the transition of the foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow spurred by trade wars and the COVID-19 pandemic in which Vietnam has significant opportunities to become the next global factory.
30-05-2020 10:05
More than 340 Vietnamese citizens returned to Vietnam from Taiwan (China) on a flight of Vietnam Airlines on May 29.
30-05-2020 08:00
WASHINGTON: The United States will take action to prevent alleged espionage by Chinese students, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday (May 28), ahead of an expected announcement by President Donald Trump.
29-05-2020 17:26
BEIJING: Volkswagen said on Friday (May 29) it will invest around 2 billion euros (US$2.2 billion) in two Chinese companies in the electric vehicle sector, calling it "the world's biggest market".
28-05-2020 15:54
VANCOUVER: Chinese Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou suffered a legal setback on Wednesday (May 27) when a Canadian judge ruled that proceedings to extradite her to the United States will go ahead.
28-05-2020 08:00
News of a Taiwanese-based semiconductor chip facility set to be built in Arizona has placed focus on US attempts to entice major American corporations to return home or persuade foreign groups to set up shop anew. But it remains to be seen if the tangled complexities of cross-border trade pacts, the coronavirus pandemic, and the US-China trade dispute will actually lead to companies ditching Asian nations.
27-05-2020 22:09
Hamburg-based tesa last month announced that it will invest €55 ($60.4 million) in a tape adhesive plant in Vietnam, making it the 15th production site that tesa will operate worldwide, alongside large plants in Germany, Italy, the US, and China.
25-05-2020 09:29
BEIJING: China is "open" to international cooperation to identify the source of the novel coronavirus but any investigation must be "free of political interference", China's foreign minister said on Sunday (May 24).
25-05-2020 09:10
HONG KONG: Police fired tear gas and water cannon at thousands of Hong Kong protesters who gathered Sunday (May 24) against a controversial security law proposed by China, in the most intense clashes for months.
25-05-2020 09:01
BEIJING: The Chinese virology institute in the city where COVID-19 first emerged has three live strains of bat coronavirus on-site, but none match the new contagion wreaking chaos across the world, its director has said.
23-05-2020 20:15
The fate of five of the 12 notorious loss-making projects, which have disputes over engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracts, remain uncertain because taking Chinese contractors to the court is impossible.
23-05-2020 09:35
BEIJING: China dropped its annual growth target for the first time on Friday (May 22) and pledged more government spending as the COVID-19 pandemic hammers the world's second-biggest economy, setting a sombre tone to this year's meeting of parliament.