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A typhoon lashed central Japan on Saturday with torrential rain and fierce winds, triggering a landslide that killed one man, the Kyodo news agency reported. Some parts of the region southwest of the capital, Tokyo, got up to 200 mm (7.8 inches) of rain in the 24 hours up to …

A 600-kg bomb was found at a bridge construction site in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong Friday. Workers were using excavators along the Da Huoai River in Da P’Loa Commune, Da Huoai District, three hours from tourist town Da Lat, when they encountered a hard object. An inspection …

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said his country will ease Covid border control requirements next month, a key step in fostering a recovery in Japan’s tourism sector, which is eager to take advantage of the yen’s slide to a 24-year low. Japan has maintained some of the strictest border measures …

Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd on Friday said it plans to add more than 200 pairs of passenger flights in October to both regional and long-haul destinations. The announcement came after Hong Kong government said to scrap its controversial Covid hotel quarantine policyfor all arrivals from Sept. 26. “While we will …

Oil prices plunged about 5% to an eight-month low on Friday as the U.S. dollar hit its strongest level in more than two decades and on fears rising interest rates will tip major economies into recession, cutting demand for oil. Brent futures fell $4.31, or 4.8%, to settle at $86.15 …

Countries on the front lines of the climate crisis are fed up. During the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations this week, low-lying island nation Vanuatu stepped up a fight to get the world to focus on combating global warming by calling for a fossil fuel nonproliferation …

The number of dengue fever cases recorded in Vietnam so far this year is only slightly lower than the whole of 1998, when 300,000 cases and 400 deaths were recorded. The situation is rendered more worrisome because the virus has been found in more localities and the country’s healthcare sector …

Three national technology exchanges will be formed in the near future, facilitating connections with regional and global exchanges, Minister of Science and Technology Huynh Thanh Dat said Friday. Speaking at a conference on developing an efficient, modern and integrated science and technology market, Dat said the exchanges will connect supply …

More than 20 Chinese nationals are missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Cambodia, an official said on Friday. The boat carrying 41 Chinese people got into difficulties off Sihanoukville on Thursday, provincial spokesman Kheang Phearom told AFP, and only 18 of those on board had been rescued. …

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong asked Ho Chi Minh City to give priority to infrastructure construction and create a “stronger breakthrough” in the field. Meeting with HCMC leaders on Friday, the Party chief, 78, said: “The city needs to soon overcome its weaknesses in transport infrastructure, have more radical …