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A low-pressure area in the East Sea has evolved into a storm, the first this year off Vietnam’s coast. The storm, internationally named Talim, was around 880 km to the east-southeast of China’s Leizhou Peninsula at around 1 p.m. Saturday. Its maximum wind speed was between 62-74 kph, according to …

A former kindergarten teacher was executed in central China this week after killing one child and injuring 24 others by poisoning their porridge with sodium nitrite four years ago, state media reported on Friday. Wang Yun, 39, had unsuccessfully appealed the sentence, initially handed down in September 2020 by the …

Rescuers battled on Sunday to reach people trapped in a flooded tunnel in South Korea, where at least 37 people have died and nine are missing after heavy rains caused flooding and landslides. South Korea is at the peak of its summer monsoon season, and there has been heavy rainfall …

Singapore’s powerful anti-graft body issued an arrest notice for one of the city-state’s richest people, his company said Friday, widening a probe into rare high-level corruption. Hotel tycoon Ong Beng Seng was given “a notice of arrest and has posted bail”, Hotel Properties Limited said in a filing with the …

A New York architect was charged on Friday in connection with the long-unsolved murders of three women whose bodies were found near a beach on Long Island more than a decade ago. Rex Heuermann, 59, is facing murder charges for the 2009 and 2010 deaths of the three women and …

China’s economic growth is expected to have surged in the second quarter, an AFP survey has forecast, but analysts say Monday’s figures will be misleadingly inflated given the low base of comparison with pandemic-wracked 2022. A year ago, with restrictions such as sudden lockdowns, travel curbs and factory shutdowns the …

Ho Chi Minh City is among the 21 cities and provinces with the lowest fertility rate in Vietnam, officials said at a meeting Friday. Pham Chanh Trung, director of HCMC Bureau of Population and Family Planning, said with a fertility rate of 1.39 children per woman of childbearing age, the …

Hanoi education authorities plan to increase the number of students in public schools to 50 per class in 10th grade. In a report on enrollment in the 2023-2024 school year, the Department of Education and Training expected the number of students graduating middle school in the next three years to …

Five fishermen have been prosecuted for taking turns beating another fisherman and forcing him to eat raw fish while working off Ca Mau Province. Tran Cong Toan, Doan Van Tac, Su Chi Tam, Nguyen Van Ty, and Nguyen Van Cua, aged between 27 and 41, will stand trial on the …

Torrential rain swept across South Korea on Friday, forcing the cancellation of over a hundred flights and leaving thousands of homes without power as the government put officials on high alert for the peak of the summer monsoon season. Over 4,000 households have experienced power cuts in the capital Seoul …