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A man in northern Vietnam’s Ha Nam Province has been detained after allegedly strangling and stashing a 3-year-old boy inside a freezer. Nguyen Truong Giang, 25, was detained by Ha Nam police Sunday for behavior that may constitute a murder charge. Giang said that at 3:20 p.m. on Saturday, a …

U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Marc Knapper enjoyed com tam (broken rice), a popular Saigonese dish, during a working trip to Ho Chi Minh City. The U.S. Embassy in Hanoi last weekend shared a video on its Facebook page, showing the U.S. ambassador and food blogger Thuyen Vo trying the broken …

The Philippines is looking to buy heavy-lift Chinook helicopters from the United States, after scrapping a deal with Russia worth 12.7 billion pesos ($227.35 million) in order to avoid sanctions, Manila’s ambassador to Washington said on Monday. In June, days before President Rodrigo Duterte ended his six-year term, the Philippines …