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Who is Transsion, world’s 4th biggest smartphone maker?

Who is Transsion, world’s 4th biggest smartphone maker?

China’s Transsion has become the fourth largest smartphone manufacturer in the world despite not selling at all in its home market.
Vietnamese tourist spends $4,000 to see baobab trees in Madagascar

Vietnamese tourist spends $4,000 to see baobab trees in Madagascar

Vietnam seizes 600 kg of ivory smuggled from Africa

Vietnam seizes 600 kg of ivory smuggled from Africa

WHO eyes decision on monkeypox 'emergency', Africa says it's long overdue

WHO eyes decision on monkeypox 'emergency', Africa says it's long overdue

The World Health Organization will decide whether to declare monkeypox a global emergency, stirring criticism from African scientists who say it has been a crisis in their region for years.
June 23, 2022 | 07:32 pm PT
Vietnam admits 4 malaria patients among Africa arrivals

Vietnam admits 4 malaria patients among Africa arrivals

Two people in HCMC and two others in Hanoi have been hospitalized with malaria after arriving from Africa, the first such patients recorded in the cities in recent years.
June 3, 2022 | 09:25 pm PT
Chinese funding of sub-Saharan African infrastructure dwarfs that of West, says think tank

Chinese funding of sub-Saharan African infrastructure dwarfs that of West, says think tank

China's development banks provided $23 billion in financing for infrastructure projects in sub-Saharan Africa from 2007 to 2020, more than double the amount lent by such banks in the United States, Germany, Japan and France combined, a new study showed.
February 9, 2022 | 01:08 am PT
Thailand joins nations banning entry from Africa over Covid Omicron variant

Thailand joins nations banning entry from Africa over Covid Omicron variant

Thailand said on Saturday it would ban the entry of people traveling from eight African countries it designated as high-risk for the new Omicron variant of Covid-19.
November 27, 2021 | 02:07 am PT
Man gets 6 years for smuggling rhino horns from Mozambique

Man gets 6 years for smuggling rhino horns from Mozambique

A HCMC court Friday sentenced a man to six years in jail for illegally transporting rhino horns weighing over six kilograms from Mozambique.
November 21, 2020 | 12:11 am PT
Vietnam textile industry orders hit by African competition

Vietnam textile industry orders hit by African competition

Vietnamese textile manufacturers are seeing orders decline with buyers moving to other, cheaper developing countries.
December 9, 2019 | 10:59 pm PT
Singapore seizes biggest ever ivory haul en route to Vietnam

Singapore seizes biggest ever ivory haul en route to Vietnam

Singapore has made its largest ever seizure of smuggled ivory, impounding a haul of nearly nine tons of tusks from an estimated 300 elephants.
July 23, 2019 | 12:17 am PT
Six tons of pangolin scales seized in southern Vietnam

Six tons of pangolin scales seized in southern Vietnam

100 bags with six tons of pangolin scales were found hidden in two containers labeled dry cashew nuts shipped from Nigeria on Thursday.
May 24, 2019 | 12:15 am PT
Eight tons of smuggled pangolin scales seized in Vietnam port

Eight tons of smuggled pangolin scales seized in Vietnam port

An 8-ton shipment of pangolin scales was seized at the northern Hai Phong port in March, the city’s customs department said this week.
May 16, 2019 | 01:13 am PT
Malawi rolls out ground-breaking malaria vaccine

Malawi rolls out ground-breaking malaria vaccine

Malawi on Tuesday rolled out the world's first licensed malaria vaccine in a landmark campaign against a disease that each year kills hundreds of thousands of people, especially African children.
April 23, 2019 | 10:56 pm PT
China's unbridled export of coal power imperils climate goals

China's unbridled export of coal power imperils climate goals

China is aggressively exporting coal-fired power to other regions, an investigation by AFP has shown.
December 5, 2018 | 06:40 pm PT
Vietnamese man arrested with lion, warthog body parts at Kenyan airport

Vietnamese man arrested with lion, warthog body parts at Kenyan airport

A Vietnamese national was detained at Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Monday for illegal possession of wildlife products.
October 22, 2018 | 08:18 pm PT
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