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Bitfront, a U.S. crypto exchange backed by Japanese social media firm Line Corp, said it has suspended new sign-ups and credit card payments and will cease operations in a few months despite efforts to overcome challenges in the rapidly evolving industry. “However, despite our efforts … we have regretfully determined …

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef should be listed as a world heritage site that is “in danger,” a UN panel recommended on Tuesday, saying the world’s biggest coral reef ecosystem was significantly impacted by climate change and warming of oceans. Frequent bleaching events are threatening the reef, including four over the …

A Buddhist temple in central Thailand has been left without monks after all its holy men failed drug tests and were defrocked, a local official said Tuesday. Four monks including an abbot at a temple in Phetchabun province’s Bung Sam Phan district tested positive for methamphetamine on Monday, district official …

The National Defense Ministry said it will transfer a military land plot needed for expanding Tan Son Nhat airport after HCMC pays an advance of VND29.5 billion ($1.19 million). It a document sent to the city administration, the ministry said it will hand over more military land to the city …

South Korea has extradited to New Zealand a woman suspected of murdering two children whose bodies where discovered in suitcases in Auckland this year, South Korea’s justice ministry said on Tuesday. The 42-year-old Korean-born New Zealander was handed over to New Zealand authorities on Monday evening at the Incheon International …

Japanese retail sales marked an eighth successive month of annual growth in October, data showed on Tuesday, after full reopening of borders added to the boost from this year’s dismantling of internal pandemic control measures. There was little growth from September, however, as Japanese households were squeezed by inflation running …

About half of more than 1,500 outdoor advertisement billboards in HCMC are unlicensed, the municipal Department of Culture and Sports says. At a Monday meeting with the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council on the management of advertisement activities, the department said the city has around 1,515 outdoor billboards. However, …

The Ministry of Transport has proposed the mobilization of VND3,500 billion ($141.3 million) from the state budget to upgrade seven railway stations by 2025, including designating them international. The seven stations are Dong Dang, Lao Cai, Kep, Vat Cach, Kim Lien, Dieu Tri and Song Than. The upgrade will cover …

The governing body of the Mekong River Commission, which has Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam as its members, has approved two major initiatives to better protect the river. At the 29th Meeting of the Mekong River Commission Council held last week in the southern province of Ba Ria – Vung …

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said it screened 2.56 million air passengers on Sunday, the highest number since December 2019 and the busiest day since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. The number was, however, below the 2.88 million screened on the same day in 2019 at the end …