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A man in the Mekong Delta’s Kien Giang Province had to get medical help after a fish jumped into his throat and he couldn’t get it out. The 55-year-old man was trying to catch fish when a climbing perch jumped into his mouth and went down his throat. He tried …

Singapore-based tech giant Grab will lay off over 1,000 employees, its CEO said Tuesday, a move that will affect about 11 percent of its workforce. Grab launched in 2012 as a taxi-booking app in Malaysia before becoming Southeast Asia’s biggest ride-hailing firm and expanding into financial services like digital payments. …

A man rushed into the Saigon River to save a mother and her child, and two others jumped in and helped, pulling them all safely to the bank. A girl slipped and fell into a section of the Saigon River in Binh Duong Province while playing in the area at …

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has moved its first-ever joint drills, Indonesia’s military said Tuesday, edging them away from waters disputed by China. The bloc’s joint exercises were initially slated for the North Natuna Sea, which Indonesia claims as its exclusive economic zone but where Beijing’s ships occasionally patrol. …

A slowdown in both the Chinese and global economies is the biggest issue affecting European firms in China, beating political tensions with the United States and decoupling, according to the European Chamber of Commerce in China. The number of European firms that see China as a top-three destination for future …

The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s largest destroyer, Izumo, and accompanying destroyer JS Samidare docked at Cam Ranh International Port on Tuesday, starting their visit to Vietnam from June 20-23. Colonel Nguyen Thai Hoc, Deputy Chief of Staff of Naval Region 4 High Command presided over a welcome ceremony for the …

A Da Nang City court on Tuesday awarded a 10-year jail sentence a local man for setting his pit bull on a neighbor during a quarrel last year. Tran Dinh Thao, 45, was found guilty of “murder.” Truong Anh Tam, 40, and Dang Van Ngoc, 37, got nine years each …

Former Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan, a veteran diplomat, died on Wednesday at the 108 Military Central Hospital in Hanoi, aged 86. The Central Committee on Health Care for Senior Governmental Officials said he died of old age. His funeral and other relevant procedures would be announced at a later …

Indonesian police have this month arrested nearly 500 suspects involved in the trafficking of more than 1,500 victims, officials said Tuesday, as Jakarta cracks down on human smuggling. Indonesia is one of the largest migrant worker-exporting nations in Southeast Asia, with hundreds of thousands from the poorest parts of the …

Employees of 13 banks have been summoned for questioning over the largest data theft ever uncovered in Vietnam. The Da Nang Police’s Division of Cybersecurity and Crime Prevention using High Technology said Tuesday they have launched an investigation into illegal collection, storage, trade, and publication of information about bank accounts. …