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HCMC needs to identify lands for building satellite towns to exploit the connectivity brought by its metro routes, a Japanese expert has told its leaders. Shin Kimura of the Urban Renaissance Agency, a semipublic Independent Administrative Institution, and is an agency responsible for Japanese housing, said at a meeting with …

A fire that broke out in a four-story house in Hanoi’s Ha Dong District Saturday morning killed a woman and her three grandchildren. The fire started from a motorbike parked inside the house at around 7:45 a.m. and spread all over the “tube” house on Thanh Cong Street. It took …

The United States bolted tough new immigration policies into place Friday, setting up an uncertain future for desperate migrants reaching its southern border, as a top official expressed confidence the system will hold. Thousands of people remained in Mexico hoping to enter the United States, as it was not yet …

A U.S. mother with “doomsday” religious beliefs was found guilty Friday of murdering two of her children and conspiring to kill her husband’s ex-wife. Lori Vallow was on trial in the northwestern US state of Idaho over the deaths of her 16-year-old daughter Tylee Ryan and adopted seven-year-old son Joshua …

A HCMC police officer chased down thieves fleeing on a motorbike after they pepper sprayed him, and the injured officer was even able to apprehend one. Lieutenant Tran Nhat Duy, an officer in Ward 2 of Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Binh District, was patrolling with his team on Wednesday …

A fire killed three female staff at a four-story bar on Ngo Quyen Street in the northern city of Hai Phong on Friday. The fire started on the first floor at around 2 p.m. and then quickly spread to the other three floors. The bar was designed as a closed …

A man is being investigated for smuggling MDMA tablets from Canada into Vietnam by hiding them in vitamin C bottles. Tay Ho District police in Hanoi said Friday that Vietnamese-Canadian Phung Duc Quan, 37, had been put under investigation for drug trafficking. Two other men Vu Khuong, 27, and Vu …

A bomb left behind in the war was found at the construction site of a new Ho Chi Minh City hospital being built in Hoc Mon District on Thursday. The explosive was found at the building site for the Hoc Mon Area General Hospital as excavators were digging the ground, …

Thailand’s economy likely picked up speed in the first quarter aided by a strong recovery in the tourism sector and a rebound in private consumption, but a weakening global economy poses the biggest risk to the outlook, a Reuters poll found. The tourism-reliant economy’s recovery has lagged its regional peers …

Tired of Shanghai club nights dominated by men, where a woman’s appearance often matters as much as her musical skills, Eloise Fan has created an underground space where women DJs are free to shine. On a chilly spring evening, dozens of young women in a packed basement bar crowded around …