Eighteen girls, aged between 13 and 20, were confined at the Moonlight karaoke and massage parlor in Bac Giang Province, deprived of their phones, and forced to work under surveillance. They were recently rescued by police.

A unique wooden structure, possibly centuries old, was found beneath a community well in northern Vietnam.

A massive fire engulfed Ve Pagoda in Bac Giang, reducing historic relics to ashes and causing irreversible cultural loss.