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Singapore hanged a man for trafficking drugs, said the authorities, marking its second execution in three weeks. The alleged accused was convicted in 2019 of trafficking around 1.5 kilos (3.3 pounds) of cannabis, Kokila Annamalai of local rights group Transformative Justice Collective told news agency AFP. Singapore has one of …

Indonesian mother-of-three Aslem was a domestic worker in Dubai when she started wiring cash to a self-professed shaman, believing that he would honour his promise to magically multiply her hard-earned wages. But she returned home last year penniless and in shock, saying she had been swindled out of her life …

Representatives from the Ministry of Education and Training and Times Higher Education (THE) on Thursday discussed cooperation to improve the quality of higher education in Vietnam. Times Higher Education is known for publishing the annual Times Higher Education – QS World University Rankings. Pham Quang Hung, Director of the ministry’s …

Police in Thanh Hoa Province have arrested three Iranian men for allegedly stealing VND100 million (US$4,300) from a store. Three Iranian men at a police station in Thanh Hoa Province, May 2023. Photo by VnExpress/Lam Son On the afternoon of April 24 Sabri Bejandi Mehdi, 45, Aslrosta Maddi, 43, and …

Group of Seven (G7) leaders laid wreaths in the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Friday, almost 78 years after it was attacked with a nuclear bomb, in a sombre start of a summit expected to put more sanctions on Russia for its attacks in Ukraine. Hiroshima’s legacy as the first …

A woman in the southern Binh Duong Province allegedly beat her one-year-old child to death in a rage after he refused to stop crying. Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, 23, was arrested by the police on Thursday. Thao, an employee at a karaoke parlor, lives with her two young children in …

Vietnam has dismissed a so-called U.S. report on religious freedom, saying its views on Vietnam are not objective. Vietnam’s consistent stance is to respect and safeguard human rights and people’s freedoms of religion and belief, which is enshrined in its Constitution and legal system, a deputy spokeswoman for the Ministry …

After shocking Thailand’s military-backed elite with a historic election breakthrough, the Move Forward Party now wants to take on the nation’s biggest political taboo — laws on insulting the monarchy. However MFP leader Pita Limjaroenrat’s determination to modify the lese-majeste laws protecting King Maha Vajiralongkorn has quickly emerged as a …

Chinese President Xi Jinping hailed a “new era” of ties with Central Asia on Thursday, kicking off a summit Beijing hopes will deepen relations with the strategically vital region. Held in the ancient Chinese city of Xi’an, the historic eastern end of the Silk Road that linked China to Europe …

More than half of the world’s largest lakes and reservoirs are dwindling and placing humanity’s future water security at risk, with climate change and unsustainable consumption the main culprits, a study said Thursday. “Lakes are in trouble globally, and it has implications far and wide,” Balaji Rajagopalan, a professor at …