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Due to historical influence, people in some countries in Southeast Asia drive on the left side of the road, and some on the right.

A woman was fined VND14 million ($550) and had her license revoked for three months after performing a series of dangerous motorbike stunts and posting them on TikTok. The 23-year-old woman on Tuesday told the police of the southern Vinh Long Province she performed the tricks in Vinh Long City …

A first floor stall at the Big C Thang Long Mall in Hanoi’s Cau Giay District caught fire on Wednesday, sending dozens of people running for their lives. The fire began at a shoewear store on the first floor of the mall at around 11 a.m. Hundreds of employees and …

A man has been caught trying to smuggle over 100 live snakes into mainland China by cramming them into his trousers, according to the country’s customs authority. The unnamed traveller was stopped by customs officers as he sought to slip out of Hong Kong and into the border city of …

The HCMC – Con Dao high-speed boat service faces the axe after the lack of access to its port in HCMC made it difficult to attract passengers. After two months of operations, the giant high-speed vessel Thang Long, the largest used in the country with a capacity of 1,017 passengers, …

A man who shot dead a 22-year-old woman following a quarrel at a birthday party has been arrested after one week at large. Dinh Xuan Sang, 40, a resident in Ha Nam Province that borders Hanoi, was arrested on midnight Wednesday near the border of Vietnam and Cambodia in the …

Hundreds of Europeans touring the American West and adventurers from around the U.S. are still being drawn to Death Valley National Park, even though the desolate region known as one of the Earth’s hottest places is being punished by a dangerous heat wave blamed for a motorcyclist’s death over the …

The highest camp on the world’s tallest mountain is littered with garbage that is going to take years to clean up, according to a Sherpa who led a team that worked to clear trash and dig up dead bodies frozen for years near Mount Everest’s peak. The Nepal government-funded team …

Unable to get married legally in Japan, LGBTQ couples are celebrating their special bond by donning traditional kimonos and fashionable formal wear for elaborate “photo weddings”. But these carefully choreographed images are often kept hidden in this conservative society where many LGBTQ people say they face prejudice and stigma, even …

Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Tran Sy Thanh has issued a directive calling on all citizens to register an account on the iHaNoi app, which aims to enhance online interactions between citizens, businesses, and local authorities. The initiative is part of a project which will develop population data, identification, …