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South Korea’s Asiana Airlines has stopped selling some emergency exit seats following an incident in which a passenger opened an aircraft door mid-air, the carrier said on Sunday. A court in Daegu later on Sunday issued an arrest warrant for the man, surnamed Lee, for allegedly breaking aviation security laws, …

The summer heat is forecast to return to northern and central Vietnam starting Monday, driving temperatures up to 38 degrees Celsius. Northern Vietnam regions have been enjoying a mild reprieve from scorching heat over the past week thanks to the impacts of cold air, which brought downpours. But starting Monday, …

A 14-legged giant isopod is the highlight of a new dish at a ramen restaurant in Taipei and it has people queuing up – both for pictures and for a bite from this bowl of noodles. Since the ‘The Ramen Boy’ launched the limited-edition noodle bowl on May 22, declaring …

Vietnam is among the top countries worldwide in which the Internet is exploited for illegal purposes, a top information official said Saturday. At a conference on multichannel networks in Ho Chi Minh City, Nguyen Thanh Lam, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications, said that “for every 100 coins made from …

China’s first domestically produced passenger jet took off on its maiden commercial flight on Sunday, a milestone event in the nation’s decades-long effort to compete with Western rivals in the air. Beijing hopes the C919 commercial jetliner will challenge foreign models like the Boeing 737 MAX and the Airbus A320, …

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was set to inaugurate a grand new parliament building Sunday, a major part of his Hindu nationalist government’s remodeling of New Delhi, but opposition parties have said they will boycott the event. “Our new Parliament is truly a beacon of our democracy. It reflects the …

A 22-year-old man died after a fire engulfed a house in HCMC’s Tan Phu District on Sunday. The fire began at around 1 a.m. in a three-story house on Le Sao Street. Three people, aged 22-25, were trapped inside when the fire broke out. Locals tried to extinguish the fire, …

US President Joe Biden and Republican lawmakers struck a deal in principle to raise the country’s debt ceiling Saturday, in a crucial first step towards eliminating the threat of a disastrous default with just days to spare. The government is expecting to hit its borrowing limit on June 5, raising …

A former police officer in HCMC was sentenced to 13 years in prison for smuggling over VND217 billion ($9.2 million) worth of goods. Hoang Duy Tien, 38, former police officer under the economic police division of the HCMC police department, was sentenced to prison by the HCMC People’s Court on …

Three members of a family were killed in the central province of Binh Dinh when a 4-year-old girl inadvertently accelerated a motorbike into a fence. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Thom, a 26-year-old Phu My District resident, was transporting her mother-in-law and two children to a medical check-up on Friday when the …