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Worried, exhausted: Police officers worked around the clock to rescue people and recover all bodies from a karaoke fire that killed 32 in Binh Duong Province.     Police work for 23 hours straight in Binh Duong’s karaoke fire rescue Police recall rescue mission in Binh Duong’s deadly karaoke fire

A section of the arterial road connecting Nha Trang beach town with Cam Ranh airport has been packed with nails, causing many flat tires. On Wednesday morning, Phan Duy’s motorbike got a flat tire as he drove from Cam Ranh to Nha Trang in central Khanh Hoa Province. He encountered …

South Korea levied tens of millions of dollars in fines on Alphabet’s Google and Meta Platforms for privacy law violations, authorities said on Wednesday. In a statement, the Personal Information Protection Commission said it fined Google 69.2 billion won ($50 million) and Meta 30.8 billion won ($22 million). The privacy …

Worried, exhausted: Police officers worked around the clock for almost 24 hours to rescue people and recover all bodies from a karaoke fire that killed 32 in Binh Duong Province.     Police recall rescue mission in Binh Duong’s deadly karaoke fire Police recall rescue mission in Binh Duong’s deadly …

More than 100 jars of rice wine distilled with pythons, large lizards, cobras and deer have been found at two condo apartments in Hanoi. The wine had been put up for sale at the two apartments in La Khe Ward of Hanoi’s Ha Dong District. The owners of the wine …

Russia and Belarus have not been invited to Queen Elizabeth’s state funeral next Monday which will see more than 100 kings, queens, heads of state and other VIPs attend, a government source said. Neither country will be represented at the ceremony in London, following Russia’s attacks in Ukraine, putting them …

The United States is considering options for a sanctions package against China to deter Taiwan action, with the European Union coming under diplomatic pressure from Taipei to do the same, according to sources familiar with the discussions. The sources said the deliberations in Washington and Taipei’s separate lobbying of EU …

Asian shares tumbled, the dollar held firm and the U.S. yield curve was deeply inverted on Wednesday, as a white-hot U.S. inflation report dashed hopes for a peak in inflation and fuelled bets that interest rates may have to be raised higher and for longer. U.S. Labor Department data showed …

The United States is considering options for a sanctions package against China to deter Taiwan action, with the European Union coming under diplomatic pressure from Taipei to do the same, according to sources familiar with the discussions. The sources said the deliberations in Washington and Taipei’s separate lobbying of EU …

The dollar climbed close to a 24-year peak against the yen on Wednesday amid a jump in U.S. yields after hotter-than-expected inflation boosted bets for even more aggressive monetary tightening by the Federal Reserve next week. The dollar rose as high as 144.965 yen in the Asian session, taking it …