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A truck which got stuck in a railroad crossing in Hanoi was smashed by a fast-moving train. The truck broke down as it reached the middle of the grade crossing and was stuck there for 15 minutes on Sunday evening, but there were no guards on duty to warn the …

Police in the Central Highlands resort town of Da Lat said Monday a South Korean tourist died after his motorbike crashed into a roadside power pole. The accident happened at 2:30 a.m. on Saturday when the 54-year-old man was going from Tran Hung Dao Street to Hung Vuong Street, police …

Two crew members have died and one is missing after a fire broke out on an oil tanker carrying fuel to terminals on the Indonesian islands of Bali and Lombok, the state energy company Pertamina said in a statement late on Sunday. The chartered vessel, MT Kristin, had 17 crew …

A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Wednesday will make a new push for legislation to bar passengers fined or convicted of serious physical violence from commercial flights after a series of recent high-profile incidents. Three lawmakers said on Monday they plan to reintroduce the “Protection from Abusive Passengers Act,” saying …

A 28-year-old woman armed with several guns on Monday fatally shot three children and three adult staffers at a private Christian school she once attended in Tennessee’s capital city before police killed her, authorities said. There was no immediate official word on a possible motive for the gun violence, which …

Ho Chi Minh City police have arrested Le Van Bam, 44, for drug possession after viral videos showed him forcing his lover’s 3-year-old son to smoke meth. Aside from the drug possession charge, police are investigating Bam on charges of child abuse and “enticing others to use drugs.” Videos of …

Ben Tre Province farmers are once again scrambling to save their drought-stricken durian trees from saltwater intrusion. Tran Van Thu, a local in Chau Thanh District’s Tien Long Commune, measured the salinity level in the Ba Lai and Ham Luong rivers last week. Both are tributaries of the Tien River, …

Taxis will have to pay a service fee to operate inside HCMC’s Tan Son Nhat airport and pay another fee to pick up passengers. Tan Son Nhat International Airport will collect a fee of VND9,100 (US$0.38) from all taxis entering it from April 1. Besides, TCP Vietnam Investment, which operates …

The reed fields by the banks of Thach Han River in Quang Tri Province were where prisoner exchanges took place after the Paris Accords, with 200 prisoners exchanged daily for two months. When peace was reestablished in Vietnam following the signing of the Paris Accords on January 27, 1973, one …

China said on Monday that it was detaining a Japanese national on suspicion of espionage, after Tokyo urged Beijing to release one of its citizens. “Relevant Chinese authorities took criminal coercive measures this month against a Japanese citizen, in accordance with the law,” foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning told a …