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Police have arrested a man from the Netherlands accused of stabbing his Vietnamese wife to death after a quarrel over her excessive cellphone use. Kenter JacoBus Johansen, 63, is now facing a murder charge, according to police in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on Wednesday. Johansen married Le …

Temperatures in northern Vietnam are forecast to rise from Thursday and reach 37 degrees Celsius this weekend, while southern parts of the country will hit 35-36 degrees. The National Center for Hydrometeorological Forecasting said the northern region’s recent cool climate was ending after a four-day cold spell. A hot low-pressure …

At least two people were injured after a man opened fire at the Indonesian Council of Ulama (MUI) office in Jakarta on May 2. According to local media, the suspect was found dead at the scene. Local police said that the suspect was Mustofa, who routinely delivered letters to the …

56 people died and 22 were left in critical condition due to traffic accidents in the past four days, according to the Ministry of Health. From April 29 to May 2, a total 2,876 people visited hospitals for examination of injuries caused by traffic accidents and more than 1,500 of …

A man suspected of killing five neighbors in Texas over complaints of noise he was making by firing his gun outside at night was arrested in a neighboring town on Tuesday after a massive, four-day manhunt, a county sheriff said. The suspect was identified this week as Francisco Oropesa, 38, …

The United States stands with treaty ally the Philippines in the face of harassment by China’s coast guard in the South China Sea and remains deeply concerned about “intimidation” by Beijing, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday. A visit to the United States this week by Philippine President Ferdinand …

It took some Vietnamese tourists up to 6 hours to cross the border from Vietnam’s Mong Cai into Dongxing City this weekend due to Chinese coronavirus measures during the holiday rush. In accordance with Chinese policies, Vietnamese entering Dongxing had to be part of a group with at least three …

A Vietnamese man died while in detention at a Japanese police station on April 29, and his cause of death is yet to be confirmed. The man, 29, was at a police station in Ibaraki Prefecture, the Mainichi reported. He was taken to the hospital at 7:30 a.m. because he …

Eight were killed and over 20 were injured after a bus and a truck collided in Laos’s Bolikhamxay Province on Monday. Vientiane rescue authorities said among the injured were foreign nationals, including two from the U.K., two from South Africa and one from Sweden, the Laotian Times reported. The bus …

A 14-year-old boy was found dead in the pool at an ecotourism site in the central province of Ha Tinh Province Monday. Pham Minh Dang went to bathe in a pool that was 90 cm deep Hai Thuong ecotourism site in Huong Son District. Some 30 minutes afterwards, security guards …