The fake university degrees and diplomas were sold for VNĐ500,000-700,000 (US$19-26.6) each, while each other fake document yielded a profit of about VNĐ200,000 ($7.6).

The vessel lost its tracking signal at around 8am Friday and sank after encountering a strong storm while returning to the Trường Sa (Spratly) islands.

As farmers prepare for a new rice crop, terraced fields in Mường La Commune, Sơn La Province, are transformed into a striking landscape of cascading water and vibrant green seedlings, showcasing one of the Northwest's most iconic rural scenes.

According to the Social Policy Department under the General Department of Politics of the Việt Nam People's Army, since 1993, foreign individuals and organisations have provided Việt Nam with around 800,000 pages of documents on the burial locations of Vietnamese soldiers, helping authorities locate and recover the remains of nearly 1,000 war martyrs.

DNA offered a scientific solution, but for years technology struggled to unlock usable genetic information from decades-old remains.

Unlike previous efforts, which depended largely on wartime documents, eyewitness accounts and personal belongings, the Gene Bank offers something those methods cannot: a permanent genetic reference that can be matched with unidentified remains of fallen soldiers whenever new evidence becomes available.

Four months into the 500-day campaign, teams have already recovered nearly 1,400 sets of remains, and new DNA science is bringing more soldiers' names back every week.

Fifty-eight years after the 1968 Tết Offensive and General Uprising, the search for and recovery of the remains of liberation fighters reportedly missed in action on the northern outskirts of HCM City is renewing hope for families who have spent decades waiting for news of their loved ones.

Traffic police said more than 4,000 commercial drivers may have exceeded legal work-hour limits, based on tracking and camera data.