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A courtroom portrait led Donald Trump to deliver a blunt self-assessment on Thursday: “I gotta lose some weight.” The former president’s banter with a courtroom artist came as he made an appearance at his ongoing civil fraud trial in New York. Outside the courtroom, the former president, 77, told news …

The street leading to Vietnam’s largest port Cat Lai in HCMC will be expanded from 6-8 m to 30 m to serve increasing traffic demand.   According to a plan announced Wednesday by Ho Chi Minh City’s authorities, a 2-km-long section of Nguyen Thi Dinh Street will be enlarged at …

The principal of a middle school in the northern Tuyen Quang Province, where students locked a teacher in a classroom and threw objects at her, has been suspended. Pham Duy Sang, principal of the Van Phu Middle School in Son Duong District, was suspended for 15 days per a decision …

Agnes Arabela Marques was only 15 when she met the leader of a controversial yoga sect accused of running an international tantric sex ring that used women as slaves. “At first he seemed nice,” Arabela Marques said of 71-year-old guru Gregorian Bivolaru, who was arrested last week in Paris after …

Malaysia has started trapping and relocating tigers after three people were killed by the critically endangered creatures in the past two months, officials said Thursday. Eleven cage traps and 20 cameras have been installed in recent weeks in the forested area of Gua Musang district, in the northeastern state of …

Japan’s parliament has passed a bill to legalize cannabis-based medicines in a landmark revision of its stringent drug laws, while toughening its ban on recreational use of marijuana. The changes to Japan’s cannabis and narcotics control laws passed on Wednesday in the upper house will pave the way for the …

Oil spills on a road in southern Binh Duong Province caused several motorbike riders to fall and injure themselves. The oil spills appeared in front of the gates of the Song Than industrial park, Di An City on Wednesday, causing several people to slip and fall on the road. Dozens …

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet will pay an official visit to Vietnam next week at the invitation of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh. The visit will take place Dec. 11-12, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced. This marks the PM’s first visit to Vietnam since he took office in August. …

Chinese Party General Secretary and President Xi Jinping and his spouse Peng Liyuan will make a two-day state visit to Vietnam from Dec. 12 to 13. The visit is made per the invitation by Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and his spouse, and President Vo Van Thuong and his …

Prosecutors on Thursday sought the death penalty for a man charged over a 2019 arson attack on an anime studio that killed 36 people in Japan’s deadliest crime in decades, reports said. Shinji Aoba, who nearly died from burns he sustained, has admitted to starting the fire at Kyoto Animation …