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Torrential rain over Japan’s southwestern island of Kyushu triggered floods and landslides that left up to six people dead and rescuers searching for three missing, officials said on Tuesday. The Japan Meteorological Agency downgraded the special warnings for heavy rains, issued on Monday for northern parts of the island, to …

A summer school in quantum technology for advanced doctoral and postdoctoral students has begun in Quy Nhon City. The “Advanced Summer School in Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Gravity” being held between July 10 and 29 at the International Centre for Interdisciplinary Science and Education has attracted 99 scientists working …

Hanoi has hiked water tariffs, with prices for households increasing from VND5,973 per cubic meter to VND7,500 (25-32 cents) for the first 10 m3 used in a month. Under a decision recently issued by the city people’s committee, the price increase will be done in two phases: the first from …

More than 61,000 people died due to the heat during Europe’s record-breaking summer last year, a study said on Monday which called for more to be done to protect against even deadlier heatwaves expected in the coming years. The world’s fastest warming continent experienced its hottest summer on record in …

Hundreds of people gathered on Monday to mark the five-year anniversary of the dramatic rescue against impossible odds of 12 young footballers from a flooded cave in northern Thailand. Now in their late teens, the boys and their coach, Mr Ekkapol Chantawong, descended into the spotlit chambers of the Tham …

Regular emission checks will help motorbike owners save VND25,000 (US$1.06) per motorbike a year, the Ministry of Transport has said. Amendments to the Law on Road Traffic being drafted by the ministry mandate regular emission checks for all motorbikes. Owners can save money on fuel by conforming to emission standards …

At least two people died after a huge construction girder over a busy road collapsed in the Thai capital Bangkok, police said Monday, with videos of the terrifying incident rapidly shared online. The massive metal girder on the Lat Krabang Tollway construction project to the east of the city crumpled …

Police in Hanoi have charged seven people with running a counterfeit money ring worth VND13 billion (US$550,000). According to investigators, Huynh Thi Bup, 50, Dang Thi Thuy Van, 44, Dinh Xuan Tien, 41, will be prosecuted for “storing, transporting and circulating fake money.” They proposed that Nguyen Tien Quan, 44, …

A passenger train barreled straight through a defenseless five-passenger car at a Hai Phong rail crossing that has no electric gate, killing one and injuring four. The tragedy on Monday is nothing new at this particular An Duong District rail crossing, where no rising and falling barrier or gate has …

Southern Binh Duong Province, home to many industrial zones, wants to build a railway to boost cargo transport to ports in Ba Ria Vung Tau Province. The province’s government on Sunday assigned the Provincial Management Board of Traffic Construction Investment Project to coordinate with agencies to prepare a pre-feasibility report …