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Chinese criminals running cryptocurrency scams in Southeast Asia are targeting Filipinos to work for them because of their English-language and computer skills, a Philippine foreign ministry official said Monday. Filipinos were “prized” targets for scam networks operating in Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia, said Eduardo de Vega, acting undersecretary for migrant …

A pitched battle following a collision between two motorbikes in the southern Binh Duong Province on Sunday left one person dead and another seriously injured, the local police said. Lam Van Vui, 36, was riding with a friend on Thuan Giao Street in Di An Town when he hit another …

British University Vietnam has become the first school in Vietnam to receive university-wide accreditation from the U.K. Government’s Higher Education Quality Assurance Agency (QAA). The university is also the first in the ASEAN region and is among 22 universities outside the U.K. to achieve QAA university-wide accreditation. QAA regulates the …

Personnel at Hanoi’s Noi Bai Airport Monday returned a bag containing VND1.2 billion ($50,840) in cash to a passenger who left it next to a baggage carousel. The bag was found by Nguyen Duc Tue, who was on duty at the domestic terminal. He informed security personnel about the bag …

Eight people died when a passenger bus collided with a tractor in the central province of Quang Nam at around 4 a.m. Tuesday. Witnesses said the vehicles were traveling in the opposite direction and rammed into each other at an intersection of Road 129 which runs along the coast in …

The U.S. military said on Monday it had recovered critical electronics from the suspected Chinese spy balloon downed by a U.S. fighter jet off South Carolina’s coast on Feb. 4, including key sensors presumably used for intelligence gathering. “Crews have been able to recover significant debris from the site, including …

China should restrain its forces to prevent them committing any “provocative act”, the Philippine military said on Monday, after Manila accused China’s coast guard of using a laser to try to disrupt a resupply mission to troops in the South China Sea. The Philippine coast guard (PCG) said its vessel …

A passenger bus collided with a tractor-trailer in the central Quang Nam Province at around 4 a.m. on Tuesday, killing eight people. Witnesses said the two vehicles were moving from opposite directions and they hit each other at an intersection in Tam Hiep Commune of Nui Thanh District. The crash …

Nearly two-thirds of Japanese believe same-sex marriage should be legally recognized, a public opinion poll showed on Monday. The Kyodo news agency survey was conducted a week after Prime Minister Fumio Kishida fired an aide who said he would not want to live next to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender …

An Indonesian court on Monday sentenced a former police general to death for orchestrating the murder of his bodyguard, in a case that has gripped the Southeast Asian country for months. Ferdy Sambo, an ex-inspector general and head of internal affairs with the national police whose trial began in October, …