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Identical twin sisters who were separated at birth but reunited after 13 years are now the best of friends. However, it was not always a smooth road.

The Chinese technology company Xiaomi announced the delivery of its first made-in-Vietnam phone handsets this week, the South China Morning Post revealed on Thursday, the latest Chinese company to move manufacturing power out of its home country in light of the Communist Party’s seemingly endless Chinese coronavirus lockdowns.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Health issued a regulation in recent days requiring citizens who refuse to receive a Chinese coronavirus booster shot to “write a letter of accountability” if they later contract the disease and spread it to others, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Tuesday, noting that some observers doubt the edict’s legality.

Leftist commentator Danny Haiphong, who contributes to Chinese state media outlets, touted on Sunday the easy availability of abortions in China and other authoritarian nations, including the psychotic dictatorship of North Korea, as evidence of their superiority over the United States.

The Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) on Monday expelled Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long and Hanoi Mayor Chu Ngoc Anh, who was also the city’s Party chairman.

China on Wednesday hailed its “iron-clad partnership” with Cambodia and broke ground on a joint project to expand the Ream Naval Base.

Two Vietnamese officials were caught on video mocking U.S. President Joe Biden during the weekend summit meeting between the United States and the Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Washington, D.C.

A Colorado man who set himself on fire outside of the Supreme Court on Earth Day has died from his injuries, police said. 

A veteran was in complete shock when he returned home on Friday and saw people crowded together on his front lawn.

U.S. Indo-Pacific commander Adm. John C. Aquilino told the Associated Press in an interview published on Sunday that China had fully militarized three artificial islands built in the territory of the Philippines as part of “the largest military buildup since World War II.”

Vietnam has banned a new Hollywood film starring Tom Holland over scenes with a map showing Beijing’s claims to the South China Sea.

A man from China was kidnapped by a gang and used as a “blood slave” in Cambodia for nearly half a year before escaping this month.

A Vietnam veteran got to enjoy an incredible ride in a World War II-era aircraft at Falcon Field in Mesa, Arizona, over the weekend.

A Vietnamese Catholic priest was stabbed to death this weekend while hearing confessions in a church in the diocese of Kon Tum, Vietnam.

Two U.S. Marine veterans reunited 56 years after one saved another during Operation Starlite, the first major battle of the Vietnam War, per PBS.

The first commanding officer of SEAL Team Six, Richard Marcinko, passed away at the age of 81 on Saturday night.

The Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office has demanded a sentence of at least 15 years for alleged people-trafficker Vo Van Hong, who is accused of being connected to the deaths of 39 people in a truck in southern England in 2019.

A 14-year-old girl painted a mural spanning several walls in Marion, Illinois, that pays homage to Marines and first responders. 

President Joe Biden’s Department of Commerce has sided with Chinese solar manufacturers who produce in Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, denying a request to investigate the manufacturers for evading United States tariffs on Chinese products. 

Chinese state media decided Veterans Day to drop some anti-American propaganda, including posts by the People’s Daily celebrating Cuban Communist dictator Fidel Castro for outlasting American efforts to dislodge him, and hyping the Vietnam-era Gulf of Tonkin incident as a “clear-cut example of U.S. escalation and warmongering toward other countries.”

Public Security Minister of Vietnam To Lam and at least one underling enjoyed a lavishly expensive gold-plated steak at the London restaurant run by chef Nusret Gökçe, more commonly known as “Salt Bae,” Singapore’s Mothership reported on Sunday.

Viewers in the Philippines reported on Monday that they could no longer access at least two episodes of the Australian TV series Pine Gap after Manila demanded Netflix remove them over the depiction of false Chinese territorial claims.

Japan and Vietnam signed an accord on Saturday allowing Tokyo to supply Hanoi with Japanese-made defense equipment and technology as the two nations work toward more rigorously countering China’s growing presence in the Indo-Pacific region.

A 96-year-old WWII veteran went for one more flight in a vintage Boeing Stearman plane thanks to the organization Dream Flights.

China’s state-run Global Times on Monday had some fun at the expense of Vice President Kamala Harris, mocking her for flying to Singapore in an allegedly doomed effort to rally Asian powers against mighty China while her administration presides over a humiliating debacle in Afghanistan.

Vice President Kamala Harris touched down in Singapore early Sunday morning to begin her tour of Asia, with traveling officials saying she will offer reassurances of Washington’s commitment to the region against a backdrop of the chaotic U.S. retreat from Afghanistan and Taliban takeover.

Comparing what’s happening in Afghanistan at the hands of an enfeebled, uncaring Joe Biden to the fall of Saigon in 1975 is ludicrous in several glaring ways.

A senior administration official defended the trip, promising that the vice president would continue to focus on the situation in Afghanistan

President Joe Biden says his deputies are predicting they will extract up to 65,000 Afghans from Afghanistan.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed the deaths of over 400 British soldiers in Afghanistan was not “in vain” as the Taliban retook the country from the Western-backed regime in Kabul.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that while video shows military helicopters facilitating the rapid evacuation of U.S. personnel from the U.S. embassy in Kabul, it was “manifestly not Saigon.” Guest host Jon Karl said,

Helicopters busily rescued personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, just weeks after President Joe Biden promised that there was “no circumstance” in which that spectacle, remembered from Vietnam, would recur.

The U.S.-based streaming platform Netflix removed an Australian television show from its Vietnamese service after the Vietnamese government complained that a South China Sea map depicted in the series violated Vietnamese sovereignty, the Hanoi Times reported on Friday.

(AFP) — Vietnam has discovered a new Covid-19 variant which spreads quickly by air and is a combination of the Indian and British strains, state media reported Saturday.

The 2020 Census resulted in California losing a Congressional seat but it could have doubled if not for immigrants moving to the state.

Rapper Xzibit’s marijuana company Napalm Cannabis has been hit with an accusation of racism due to it being named after the chemical weapon used in firebombs during the Vietnam War, according to a report by TMZ.