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A fire that tore through a shopping center in southwestern China has killed 16 people, state media reported Thursday. Video broadcast by state media CCTV and shared on social media Wednesday night showed thick black smoke billowing out of the 14-storey tower in Zigong, Sichuan province. The blaze started in …

Vietnam officially presented the submission of its extended continental shelf in respect of Central Area of the East Sea to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) in the U.S. on Wednesday. Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN, and the Ministry of …

U.S. President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid-19 while traveling Wednesday in Las Vegas and is experiencing “mild symptoms” from the virus, the White House said. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden will fly to his home in Delaware to “self-isolate.” Biden is under pressure to abandon his reelection bid …

Autopsy reports of the cyanide poisoning case at a Thai hotel revealed that the perpetrator mixed the toxin with the tea leaves, before the victims drank the brews and died. “The hotel employees brought the teapot, milk and two bottles of hot water to the room, and the suspect laced …

Initial autopsy results showed traces of cyanide in the blood of six Vietnamese and American guests at a central Bangkok luxury hotel and one of them is believed to have poisoned the others over a bad investment, Thai authorities said Wednesday. The bodies showed traces of the rapid-acting chemical and …

The Communist Party’s decision-making body Politburo has appointed one of its members to be Hanoi’s Party secretary, replacing her disgraced predecessor. Bui Thi Minh Hoai, head of the Party’s Central Mass Mobilization Commission, an advisory body to the Party Central Committee which is responsible for public security and public relations, …

A boiler explosion at a tofu-manufacturing facility in northern Thai Nguyen Province killed one person and injured two others on Wednesday. At 9 a.m., Xoan, 49, was making tofu in front of a three-story house when there was an explosion. Xoan’s son, 25, died on the spot. Xoan and a …

Vietnam’s foreign ministry has sent its condolences to the families of six victims in the cyanide poisoning case at a Bangkok hotel, in which one of them is suspected to have poisoned the others over a bad investment. “According to the latest information of the Vietnamese Embassy in Thailand, authorities …

An Australian computer scientist who claimed he invented bitcoin faces a criminal investigation in Britain for alleged perjury after he was found to have repeatedly lied and forged documents to support his false claim. Craig Wright had long claimed to have been the author of a 2008 white paper, the …

A truck driver responsible for a series of collisions that result in the death of a woman and her three children in Hanoi on Tuesday was found to have used drugs before driving. Doan Van Luong, 38, turned himself in to the police on Tuesday evening, several hours after causing …