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Vietnam’s Internet connection with other countries and territories is being impacted due to issues with the Asia Africa Europe 1 (AAE-1) undersea cable. A representative of an ISP said a shunt fault at the S1H cable section caused all the data on the AAE-1 line to be lost since the …

The climate policies of most wealthy countries and many high-emitting emerging economies are in line with global heating far beyond the safer 1.5 degree Celsius limit reaffirmed at UN climate talks last month, a new analysis found Tuesday. Even after countries raised their ambitions to cut emissions of greenhouse gases …

A dozen homes and adjacent fruit farms and fishponds were swept away into a river in Vinh Long Province recently, which is just another episode of destructive erosion in the Mekong Delta. Erosion swallowed up much of the banks of the Chien River on Monday afternoon, and there is no …

Three people died and four others were wounded after a bomb exploded on a roadside in Thailand’s troubled deep south, police said Tuesday. The seven state railway employees were on their way to fix a section of track in Songkhla province, near the Malaysian border, which had been damaged in …

A dozen homes and adjacent fruit farms and fishponds were swept away by erosion in the southern province of Vinh Long recently. Erosion swallowed up much of the banks of the Chien River on Monday afternoon, and there is no sign that it will stop soon, said chairman of the …

20 plastic bags containing ketamine were washed onto the Sa Huynh beach of central Quang Ngai Province. Locals of Vinh Tuy Village found the bags on Monday afternoon and informed authorities. Border guards of Sa Huynh then discovered white crystals inside the bags. Tests on the spot revealed the white …

Police in Vietnam’s southern province of Dong Nai have rescued 14 women held captive and forced into prostitution at local karaoke bars. The women, aged 18-25, were found early this month held captive by eight men at a house with no official address in the provincial capital of Bien Hoa. …

Police in the southern province of Dong Nai have rescued 14 women held captive and forced to serve customers at karaoke bars. The women, aged 18-25, were held captive by eight men at a house with no official address in Bien Hoa Town early this month, a joint investigation by …

Indonesia’s parliament on Tuesday approved a criminal code that bans sex outside marriage with a punishment of up to one year in jail, part of a raft of legal changes that critics say undermine civil liberties in the world’s third-largest democracy. The controversial new laws, which apply to Indonesians and …

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh will make an official visit to Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium and attend the EU – ASEAN Commemorative Summit this month. He will attend the 45th anniversary of the establishment of relations between the Association of Southeast Asian countries and the European Union to be …