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Death row inmate Nazeri Lajim beams at the camera, fingers raised in a “V” sign, wearing a shirt emblazoned with large motifs and showing no signs of his impending hanging. Taken days before his execution at Singapore’s Changi prison, the picture is among the last mementoes Lajim’s family has of …

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has suspended an air traffic control crew that left two planes to nearly collide at Hanoi’s Noi Bai Airport. A representative of CAAV on Wednesday requested the Vietnam Air Traffic Management Corporation to suspend the team in charge on the day of the incident. …

Cocaine discovered in the White House on Sunday was found in a cubby hole in a West Wing entry area where visitors place electronics and other belongings before going on tours, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The Secret Service is investigating the matter, the White House …

Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg delivered a blow to Elon Musk on Wednesday, ramping up the tech billionaires’ rivalry with the launch of Instagram’s much-anticipated companion service Threads, a clone of Twitter. “Let’s do this. Welcome to Threads,” Zuckerberg wrote in his first post on the app, along with a fire emoji. …

Hong Kong-born American singer Coco Lee died at 48 on Wednesday following a suicide attempt that left her in a coma, Lee’s two sisters, Carol and Nancy Lee, said in a statement posted on Instagram and Facebook. Lee died in Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong, where she had been …

The education ministry has accepted two correct answers for a multiple-choice question in the English test of the 2023 high school graduation examination. A multiple-choice question on the exam that required examinees to choose a word in a sentence that needs to be changed has sparked debate over the past …

A company director in Ho Chi Minh City has been accused of appropriating US$3.2 million from three foreign partners by selling non-existent medical gloves during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Bui Quang Hai, director of HBC International Trading, faces up to life in prison for the violation. City prosecutors …

Four boys aged 16-19 have been detained after a video surfaced of them driving a motorbike in a Dong Nai Province car lane with their front wheel off the ground Police in the southern province’s Long Thanh District said Duong Hua Hoang Van, Nguyen Truong Xuyen, both 19, and 16-year-old …

The Institute for Economics and Peace has raised Vietnam’s peace ranking four places on this year’s Global Peace Index. The institute, based in Sydney, Australia, announced the 2023 index late last month, which ranked 163 countries and territories based on three criteria: the level of societal safety and security, the …

Shares in K-Pop management agencies fell on Wednesday, after South Korea’s antitrust watchdog began investigations into any potential infractions of subcontracting rules when outsourcing production of albums and merchandise, Yonhap reported. The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) sent investigators to the offices of HYBE, SM Entertainment and YG Entertainment on …