General Secretary of the Communist Party of Việt Nam Central Committee Tô Lâm. VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI – General Secretary of the Communist Party of Việt Nam Central Committee Tô Lâm and his spouse, along with a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation, will make an official visit to the…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett said Sunday he, too, has “felt pain” from China refusing to buy U.S.-grown soybeans during a trade conflict with President Donald Trump because “I’m actually a soybean farmer.” Bessent’s comment came during an interview with ABC News’ “This Week,” where he said that trade negotiations with China in the past two…
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Hurricane Melissa was strengthening rapidly late Saturday, threatening to become a major hurricane and cause catastrophic flooding in the northern Caribbean, including Haiti and Jamaica. Melissa became a hurricane on Saturday, prompting forecasters to issue a hurricane warning for Jamaica, saying it could reach the island as a major storm early next…
Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Vote yes on Prop. 50to foil Trump’s policies In the past 10 days, President Trump has demonstrated why Californians must vote for Proposition 50, which he opposes. Trump has: • Released an AI video of himself wearing a crown while flying…
It said the ‘sweeping package’ would ‘boost energy development, modernise land and resource management’ in Alaska. The Trump administration has finalised plans to allow oil and gas drilling in a national wildlife refuge spanning pristine Indigenous land in Alaska, reigniting long-simmering tensions about conserving one of the United States’s environmental jewels. The US Department of…
China is quickly becoming the global leader in nuclear power, with nearly as many reactors under construction as the rest of the world combined. While its dominance of solar panels and electric vehicles is well known, China is also building nuclear plants at an extraordinary pace. By 2030, China’s nuclear capacity is set to surpass…
French economist Philippe Aghion issued a stark warning to Europe shortly after winning this year’s Nobel Prize, saying the continent was losing the technology race to China and the United States. “Europe needs to wake up. We’re falling behind technologically compared to the United States and now China,” the newly minted laureate said during public…
Denica Riadini-Flesch, an economist turned entrepreneur redefining one of the world’s most polluting industries, has been awarded the 2025 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award by UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. She received the $100,000 prize for pioneering one of the world’s first “farm to closet” supply chains, which positions smallholder farmers and women artisans as…
A transaction office of MBBank. Shares of the lender dropped over 1.8 per cent on Tuesday, weighing on the market’s downturn. —Photo vietnamplus.vn HÀ NỘI — Benchmark indices finished lower on Tuesday due to profit-taking activities after adding nearly 50 points to the VN-Index. Despite active trading, market participants exhibited greater caution as the VN-Index…
Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. USA Rare Earth — The rare earth miner jumped 8.8% after CEO Barbara Humpton told CNBC that the company is in “close communication” with the White House. GameStop — The meme stock fell 2.7% after the company said in a filing it’s selling a combination of…