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Australian Governor-General David Hurley arrived in Hanoi on Monday for a four-day state visit to Vietnam at the invitation of President Vo Van Thuong. He is the first foreign leader to be received by Thuong since he took office last month, and his visit is part of celebrations of the …

Sixteen projects worth VND94.3 trillion (US$4 million) have been proposed to boost traffic connections and prevent erosion and drought in the Mekong Delta. Those projects are listed in a proposal submitted recently by the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, and authorities of 13 cities and …

Malaysia’s parliament on Monday passed sweeping legal reforms to remove the mandatory death penalty, trim the number of offenses punishable by death, and abolish natural-life prison sentences, a move cautiously welcomed by rights groups. Malaysia has had a moratorium on executions since 2018, when it first promised to abolish capital …

The government approved a project on Monday to construct at least a million units of affordable “social housing” for low-income people by 2030. The project aims for 428,000 of the houses to be built by 2025. The total cost of the project is expected to be around VND849 trillion ($36.1 …

Former U.S. President Donald Trump flew into New York City on his private plane on Monday to face charges stemming from a probe into hush money paid to a porn star, while his lawyers argued against letting cameras in the courtroom. With New York taking security precautions and the mayor …

Seoul police said Sunday they had arrested an illegal immigrant from Vietnam for buying stolen mobile phones and smuggling them back home. The Vietnamese is accused of buying stolen mobile phones for 200,000 won (US$156) each and then smuggling them back to Vietnam for a total profit of as much …

Indonesia has lowered its value-add tax on battery-based electric vehicle sales to 1% from 11% to encourage the adoption of EVs, a government ministry said on Monday, amid efforts to attract investment into domestic production, The incentive came into effect this month and will remain in place until the end …

The end of China’s strict Covid-19 border controls is prompting pent-up cash to begin flowing abroad, real estate agents and property data from Australia to Singapore suggest. Chinese demand is helping boost Singapore property prices, Chinese students are snapping up apartments in Sydney and Melbourne, and agents say Chinese interest …

The Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) Public Transport Management Center proposed that seven public bike stations be added in District 1. The Center proposed to the HCMC Department of Transport that the bike stations, each with 10-20 bikes, are added to Nguyen Hue Street and Ben Thanh Market as part …

A truck carrying watermelons was going downhill when it plowed into a mountainside in Phu Yen Province, leaving four dead and five injured. The accident took place Monday morning as the truck was moving on Provincial Road DT643 in the central province’s Tuy An District. When traveling down the road, …