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India has imposed restrictions on sugar exports for the first time in six years by capping this season’s exports at 10 million tonnes, a government order said, to prevent a surge in domestic prices after mills sold a record volume on the world market. The government has also asked exporters …

Vacation rental company Airbnb Inc will shut down all listings and experiences in mainland China from July 30, it said on Tuesday, joining a long list of Western internet platforms that have opted out of the Chinese market. The company made the announcement on its official WeChat account without elaborating …

A woman in the Central Highlands applied for a death certificate for her three-year-old son though he was still alive because she didn’t want her ex-husband to visit him. Nguyen The Dung, 41, who lives in Kon Tum Province, said Tuesday that he found his son days after his ex-wife …

A teenage gunman opened fire at an elementary school in South Texas on Tuesday, killing 18 children and three adults before the suspect was also killed, officials said, in the latest spasm of mass gun violence sweeping the United States. Governor Greg Abbott said the suspect, identified as 18-year-old Salvador …

The health ministry has asked localities to ramp up surveillance in border areas for possible cases of monkeypox, which has reportedly spread to at least 12 countries. A representative of the General Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health was quoted on the government news portal as saying …

Landslides and flash floods triggered by heavy rains have killed three people in Tuyen Quang and Hoa Binh provinces, and destroyed 260 houses. Two people in Tuyen Quang were buried by landslides while the person in Hoa Binh was swept away by flash floods, the National Steering Committee on Natural …

Malaysia’s move to cut exports of chickens to control soaring prices and combat domestic shortages ruffled feathers Tuesday, with neighboring Singapore warning of supply disruptions. The Southeast Asian nation is the latest country to curb food exports as prices surge, after India banned wheat shipments and Indonesia temporarily halted palm …

Seven teenagers in Ho Chi Minh City were sent to jail for stealing a phone from a French tourist two years prior. Truong Quoc Thinh, 18, received seven years in prison for robbery and snatching, as sentenced by the Family and Juvenile Court under the HCMC People’s Court on Monday. …

Work will start in 2024 on a 200-kilometer ring road through Ho Chi Minh City and the provinces of Binh Duong, Dong Nai, Long An, and Ba Ria-Vung Tau. Costing VND100 trillion ($4.3 billion), Ring Road No. 4 will run in a circle with six-eight lanes through the southern metropolis …

South Korea will issue a call this week at the World Economic Forum for Covid-19 vaccines and other medical help for North Korea, even if that means exemptions from U.N. sanctions imposed over its nuclear program, a senior official said on Tuesday. Secretive North Korea went for more than two …