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Police in Thailand say the bodies of six people were found Tuesday in a luxury hotel in downtown Bangkok and poisoning is suspected. Thailand’s Foreign Ministry said in a short statement that the dead were reported to be two Vietnamese Americans and four Vietnamese nationals. They were not identified further. …

At least six people were found dead at a hotel in Bangkok on Tuesday, a Thai police official said, adding that they were Vietnamese nationals. The police official, speaking on condition of anonymity, dismissed earlier reports in Thai media that the six people had been killed in a shooting. “There …

Authorities in Hanoi’s Tay Ho District plan to embellish the John McCain memorial, increasing its size and replacing it with monoliths. The renovation is to retain the historical and cultural values of the events that happened in the area. The memorial itself will also be pushed back so that it …

Fourteen Japanese high school students were taken to hospital Tuesday after eating “super spicy” potato chips, local media said. More than 30 pupils at a Tokyo high school were reportedly sharing the crisps during recess when some started complaining of nausea and acute pain around their mouths. Fourteen of them …

Eight people including two South Koreans were injured in a gas leak blast at a building in northern Vinh Phuc Province on Tuesday. At around 8:20 a.m., a group of people were fixing a three-story shophouse at a building in Vinh Yen City to make it a restaurant, when a …

Van Phong airport in the central Khanh Hoa Province, home to the resort city of Nha Trang, will be built on land reclaimed from the sea. The dual-use civilian-military facility will be built through a public-private partnership at a total cost of VND7.9 trillion (US$309 million), according to a proposal …

Online travel agency Booking.com was slapped with a second fine by Hungary’s competition watchdog Monday for failing to cease its “unfair” business practices, including putting psychological pressure on customers. Travel agency Booking.com’s logo seen on a building. Illustration photo by Pixabay In 2020, the Amsterdam-based firm was fined 2.5 billion …

At a job fair for soon-to-be graduates in central Shanghai, recruiters sat bored under washed-out tarpaulins as rain and an apparent lack of interest kept potential young employees away. A candidate participating in a job interview. Illustration photo by Pexels The empty seats belied China’s stubbornly high youth unemployment rate …

A truck crashed into a motorcycle and causing the death of four people in Hanoi’s Hoai Duc District on Tuesday afternoon. The accident took place at the crossroad between a street and a small bridge crossing a canal leading to the Duong Lieu industrial cluster in Hoai Duc. The 1.5-ton …

A woman was suddenly stabbed to death by a man accompanying her at a coffee shop in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 12 on Monday evening. Around 7 p.m. on Monday, a man and a woman entered a café on Le Van Khuong Street. They sat on the first floor, …