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Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Thursday the city-state would work with Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries, as well as partners like the United Nations, to push Myanmar’s military rulers to implement a stalled peace plan. He was speaking after meeting visiting Indonesian President Joko Widodo. Lee …

A former official at the Vietnamese embassy in Malaysia is the latest to be investigated for involvement in the bribery scandal surrounding repatriation of people during the Covid outbreak. Dang Minh Phuong, 38, is suspected of “abuse of position and power while performing official duties,” by investigators under the Ministry …

Credit Suisse on Thursday said it would borrow up to $54 billion from the Swiss central bank to shore up its liquidity and investor confidence after a slump in its shares intensified fears about a global financial crisis. In its statement early Thursday, Credit Suisse said it would exercise its …

The Biden administration has demanded that TikTok’s Chinese owners divest their stakes in the popular video app or face a possible U.S. ban, the company told Reuters on Wednesday. The move, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, is the most dramatic in a series of recent steps by U.S. …

North Korea fired a long-range ballistic missile into the sea between the Korean peninsula and Japan hours before South Korea’s president was due to fly to Tokyo for a summit expected to discuss ways to counter the nuclear-armed North. North Korea has conducted multiple missile launches this week amid ongoing …

Washington’s top general said the crash of a U.S. surveillance drone after being intercepted by Russian jets showed Moscow’s increasingly aggressive behavior, while Russia warned Washington that flying drones near Crimea risked escalation. A day after the U.S.dronewent down over the Black Sea, defense ministers and military chiefs from the …

Scammers are tricking people in Hanoi into sending them money by telling them their children are hospitalized and require surgery. Dao Thi Cuc, deputy headmistress of the Nguyen Truong To secondary school in Hanoi’s Dong Da District, said Tuesday the parents of a ninth grader received a call saying their …

Medical facilities may negotiate the prices of certain drugs and products during the contractor bidding process, according to a draft amendment to the Law on Procurement. Finance-Budget Commission head Nguyen Phu Cuong said on Wednesday that the draft amendment on the Law on Procurement would allow medical facilities to negotiate …

A landfill with hundreds of thousands of tons of trash in Da Lat has been burning since Saturday last week, sending smokes and stench towards nearby neighborhoods. Columns of smokes, dozens of meters tall, could be seen from afar from the Cam Ly landfill in Ward 5, which spans 12 …

A man in Da Nang was murdered by a neighbor for singing karaoke on a mobile loudspeaker at night. Tran Van Thang, 32, died after being stabbed in the neck by Le Cong Binh, 31, on Monday night, Da Nang police said Tuesday. At around 8 p.m. Monday, Thang and …