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A U.S.-born stand-up comedian has been slammed for making jokes regarding the controversial disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 back in 2014. In a video that has been circulating on the Internet since Wednesday, Jocelyn Chia, a former Singaporean and now a U.S. citizen, joked about how Malaysian airplanes “cannot …

By holding live fire drills near Itu Aba Island, Taiwan is acting in direct violation of Vietnam’s territorial sovereignty over the Spratly Archipelago, the foreign ministry stated Thursday. “The fact that Taiwan performs live fire drills in sea regions around Itu Aba, part of Vietnam’s Spratly Islands, is in serious …

Pham Thien Minh applied to 800 jobs in the two months after he was fired earlier this year, describing the period as “the worst days of my 10 years living in America.” On the morning of November 30 last year, Minh, now 29, received an email from his employers at …

The Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN will hold its first-ever joint military exercise in the South China Sea, its chair Indonesia said on Thursday, the latest multilateral security drills at a time of rising tension and uncertainty in the region. The decision was taken at a meeting of military commanders of …

Record-high greenhouse gas emissions and diminishing air pollution have caused an unparalleled acceleration in global warming, 50 top scientists warned Thursday in a sweeping climate science update. From 2013 to 2022, “human-induced warming has been increasing at an unprecedented rate of over 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade,” they reported in …

Vietnam will add two more airports in its airport construction agenda until 2030, bringing the total number of planned airports to 30. In a decision approved by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Wednesday, the Thanh Son Airport in the central province of Ninh Thuan and the Bien Hoa Airport …

A sports utility vehicle was hit from behind when stopping at a red light in southern Binh Duong Province, as recorded on a dash cam. As the vehicle was stopping a truck crashed into it on June 5, pushing it into the middle of the intersection. Its bad was badly …

Philippine scientists said that a “hazardous eruption” of a volcano in the archipelago could be days or weeks away, and urged the evacuation of nearby residents from their homes. Hundreds of families living around Mount Mayon in central Albay province are expected to be moved to safer areas after the …

A Japanese regional court on Thursday ruled the country’s failure to recognise same-sex unions an “unconstitutional situation”, offering hope to campaigners who have brought a series of lawsuits with mixed results. The ruling by the court in southern Fukuoka rounds off the first stage of a coordinated legal battle launched …

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev will make an official visit to Vietnam next week at the invitation of his counterpart Vo Van Thuong. The visit will be from June 11 to 13, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, without revealing what’s on the agenda. Tokayev, 70, the second president of Kazakhstan, …