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The water of a canal in southern Ca Mau Province turned red after a nearby facility washed off old paint cans for reselling. Locals at the Nam Dam Hamlet on Sunday saw the water of the Nang Am canal turning red. The contaminated water flowed out of several pipes in …

An Indian worker bit a snake twice, resulting in its death, after it attacked him while he was sleeping. Santosh Lohar, 35, a worker at a railway line project in Nawada District of Magadh division of the Indian state of Biharwas, was bitten by a venomous snake while sleeping at …

Ho Chi Minh City is developing an elevated road project to alleviate congestion at the northwest gateway, connecting to Tan Son Nhat airport with a VND12-trillion (US$470-million) budget. As planned by the city’s Department of Transport, the elevated route will be built along the Truong Chinh and Cong Hoa streets …

South Korea has declared its super-low birthrate a “national emergency” and poured billions into encouraging citizens to marry and reproduce, but one YouTuber has found happiness and success promoting the opposite ideal. At her home in rural South Korea, Seen Aromi practices yoga, sleeps in as long as she wants …

A woman in southern Vietnam admitted to the police she had used cyanide to poison her husband and three of her siblings’ children over the past 10 months due to family conflicts. Nguyen Thi Hong Bich, 38, was arrested on July 5 after a nephew of her was confirmed to …

K Hospital in Hanoi and AstraZeneca signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on June 27 to boost research, development, and the improvement of cancer treatment quality in Vietnam. According to Globocan 2022, an estimated 180,480 new cancer cases and 120,184 cancer deaths are expected in Vietnam. Breast cancer, liver cancer, …

Animated comedy “Despicable Me 4” rose to the top of the North American box office on its first weekend in theaters, according to figures from industry watcher Exhibitor Relations published Sunday. The fourth major installment of the Minions universe — which features Will Ferrell voicing a new villain — racked …

Indonesia’s President-elect Prabowo Subianto wants to give school children free meals, but the plan and his pledge to be ‘daring’ on spending have the country’s debt and currency markets on edge. Prabowo and his team have tried to distance themselves from any suggestions of fiscal profligacy, and to assure market …

A workers’ union at Samsung Electronics in South Korea is set to stage a three-day strike from Monday and has warned it could take further action against the country’s most powerful conglomerate at a later date. The National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU), whose roughly 28,000 members make up over a …

Japan’s current account surplus grew for the 15th straight month in May as a record primary income surplus more than offset the trade deficit, the Ministry of Finance said on Monday, reflecting an ongoing shift of the country’s sources of earnings. The current account grew to 2.85 trillion yen ($17.74 …