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When graduate student Cai Zhishan decided to spend her Labor Day holidays in northern China, she wished she had enough money to hire a car for the more-than 4,000 km (2,500 mile) round trip – the equivalent of driving from New York to Los Angeles. Instead, she chose “traveling like …

An eight-year-old migrant girl died in U.S. custody in Texas on Wednesday, a tragedy that tempered news of a sharp drop in attempted illegal crossings of the southern US border. The girl died in Harlingen, a Texas border city near the Gulf of Mexico. “The child and her family were …

An 82-year-old woman died in the southern province of Binh Duong after being mauled by her family’s pit bull. On Wednesday evening Dang Thi Van’s daughter opened the dog’s cage to take it for a walk in front of their house in Di An Town. At that time Van was …

A proposal to extend Vietnam’s e-visa duration from 30 to 90 days could help meet the demands of both international tourists and investors, according to the government. The government believes that such a change in policy would be a boon to economic development by boosting tourism, investment, business cooperation and …

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed legislation to ban TikTok from operating in the state to protect residents from alleged intelligence gathering by China, making it the first U.S. state to ban the popular video app. Montana will make it unlawful for Google and Apple’s app stores to offer TikTok within …

The world’s oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible sold for $38.1 million on Wednesday, Sotheby’s said, one of the highest prices ever for a book or document sold at auction. Wednesday’s winning bid for the Codex Sassoon was made via a donation by Alfred H. Moses, a former U.S. ambassador …

The Ha Dong weather station in Hanoi recorded 41.3 degrees Celsius Wednesday, the highest temperature ever in May in the 30 years since it was set up. According to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, of the remaining four weather stations in the city, Lang, Ba Vi and Son Tay …

Construction of the Mekong Delta’s Ca Mau Province’s largest freshwater lake, which will provide clean water for over 11,000 families, is now 70% complete. The lake, spanning 102 ha and costing VND184 billion ($7.84 million), is capable of holding 3.85 million cubic meters of water, said Nguyen Van Sol, director …

Can Gio, HCMC’s only seaside district, will need around VND76 trillion (US$3.24 billion) of investment in technical infrastructure and architecture to become a resort town. The town will cover 2,870 hectares and house a population of more than 228,000, HCMC authorities said in a new detailed zoning plan with a …

Visitors to Japan rose to a post-pandemic high of almost 2 million in April, official data showed on Wednesday, benefiting from a relaxation of travel restrictions in China. The number of foreign visitors for business and leisure climbed to 1.95 million last month from 1.82 million in March, the Japan …